All machines at moria.de

In the early years, the computer equipment at this site was pretty much a hardware zoo, but various serial terminals (DEC VT101 and VT320, Honeywell & Bull DKU7003, a bunch of Wyse 60 and Wyse 120), Sun systems (3/50, SS1+, SS4, SS5), a Transputer cluster and various PCs (an IBM 5162 among them) are now all gone.

By now, there are two 19" racks with the infrastructure and central server systems, all in rack-mount cases. The first rack also contains a small flat screen, a rackmount keyboard and a Compaq ML36 KVM-switch. Some patch panels distribute ethernet, telephone and satellite TV to all rooms.

ti-gw

For several years, the main server also served as firewall and router. I went to a dedicated routing firewall, because looking at the amount of attacks, I wanted a bastion host to control traffic. I used an old 2U case from the garbage, modified it to take low profile cards and a regular power supply (cheaper to replace), put a micro-ATX board with a Celeron 433 MHz CPU, 64 MB RAM, a small HD and a SSD running as RAID1 inside and populated the board with three network cards. The result was real cheap, eats 37 W power and is connected to the internet with T-DSL 16k+. The traffic is terminated with a single static public IPv4 address by Manitu, masquerading what's behind, and with a dynamic address by T-Online. Since some people asked, here is a walkthrough of the setup. At the site, there are multiple VLANs, each with static private IPv4 addresses. Using 6to4, the IPv6 /48 prefix is separated into various /64 networks, using public IPv6 addresses for everything.

ti-x0

I used a 3com 1100 switch for ages, but finally 10 Mbit did not cut it any more. The upgrade was a 3com 3300 switch that I am very satisfied with. Its command line interface is very easy to use and it is a perfect solution for an inexpensive 24-port 100 Mbit/s manageable switch. It connects all equipment at home using multiple VLANs that are routed and firewalled by ti-gw.

fangorn

Fangorn is the main compute and file server. Inside its 3U case works an Intel Core Duo 2GHz with 2GB RAM and it has two 500 GB SATA drives holding RAID1 groups plus a spare drive. Additionally, there is a PCI 4 port serial controller.

gandalf

Gandalf is the second moria server, serving mail and web pages. Currently, it has a 2U case with an Atom D510, 2 GB RAM and two 250 GB SATA notebook drives configured as RAID1.

bilbo

Bilbo is used for various purposes. Its hardware is a 2U case, containing a Celeron 400, 256 MB RAM, a 15 GB IDE drive and an Intel e100 network card.

galadriel

Galadriel is a Sun Ultra 1, running NetBSD 2.0 - a refreshing alternative to GNU/Linux. The machine has a 143 MHz UltraSparc CPU, 192 MB RAM, two 9 GB hard drives and and a floppy. It is used for portability tests and to remind that you can get all the features without the bloat.

celeborn

Celeborn is a Sun SparcStation 20/MP, running Solaris 9. It has two 60 MHz CPUs, 192 MB RAM and a 9 GB HD. I use Solaris for portability tests and because I don't want to lose contact with a modern, commercial Unix, but unfortunately Sun^WOracle preferred if I did that, cutting the Solaris community off free patches. It is kind of funny to own a SS20 just for fun now, having administrated a SS10 as very expensive workgroup server in 1994.

legolas

I used HP-UX 9 at university and liked it, and some years ago I took my chance to again get access to a HP-UX machine: Legolas is a HP 735/99 running HP-UX 11.00. It has 224 MB RAM, a 4GB and a 2GB SCSI HD (single ended disk tray) and an AUI ethernet port with a TP transceiver. HP does not support HP-UX 11.00 on the 735, but if you install from an older CD and omit patch PHKL_27003 from the recommended patch bundle, it works fine. There is NO WAY a 735 goes into a rack, so it sits on top.

merry

Merry is an Alpha XP1000 professional workstation with 1 GB RAM, a 500 MHz CPU and a 9 GB SCSI HD, running Tru64. An odd beast, but quite interesting.

palantir

Palantir is a diskless

Sun IPC, equipped with a mini-ITX board, running GNU/Linux and used as my workstation in the living room. It has 1 GB RAM and a Pentium-M 1.6 GHz CPU. Its 23" monitor is an Fujitsu Siemens SN 3230T, used at a resolution of 1920x1080 with TrueColor. Additionally, there is a modified Sun Speakerbox, a modified SCSI enclosure containing an USB chipcard reader and a second one containing an IDE DVD recorder. Casemodding rulez!

aragorn

Aragorn is a Compaq Armada 1575D laptop with GNU/Linux, 32 MB RAM, a Intel Pentium MMX 266 CPU, a 3 GB IDE HD and a PCMCIA ethernet card. It is mostly used to solve network problems off-site and rarely as portable workstation.