ziaNET - The server of Kristian Kristensen

Abstract

This section deals with my server, an IBM PC330 server. I will provide links, info and tips for using it.

Specs

• Intel PII 266 MHz
• 128 MB ECC SDRAM
• Dual SCSI RAID motherboard
• 6 IBM 4.5 GB Ultra Wide SCSI hard drives in hot-swap bays
• SCSI CD-ROM drive
• Floppy drive
• 10/100 Mbit Ethernet card - AMD PCNet Fast PCI
• Server cabinet

The server weighs around 20 kg without the hard drives, and it's placed on a huge foot.

OS Specs

The server is running Debian Testing (Woody) width kernel 2.4.18. Apache is installed and configured with PHP4, Postfix does the mail handling, and MySQL is the database.

The 6 SCSI disks are configured in two RAID 5 arrays, and the partitions are running ext3.

Postfix

Postfix is installed and configured to use MySQL as lookup database. This means that all the configuration needed to add a virtual mail domain to my server, is to add a MX record in the DNS for the domain, and add two lines to a MySQL table.
To retrieve the mail I use Courier POP3 which is configured to read from the same MySQL table as Postfix uses.
In the future I might list my postfix and courier configuration here.

Onboard Ethernet Card

New: I now know that the onboard ethernet card is in fact a AMD PCNet FAST PCI card, meaning you can use the pcnet32 driver, which is in a standard kernel.

Old thought: I haven't been able to compile the drivers for the embedded 3Com ethernet card, and therefore plugged in another 3Com card that uses the driver 3c59x.
The problem with the drivers was that the compiler needed some files, that wasn't present. After upgrading to the unstable debian dist it should work, but I haven't tried it yet.