As is apparently customary for tiny little networks, I will now divulge the details of the machines at bitey.net, so you all can be jealous or not need to use nmap or something, I guess.
The local network consists, at present, of five machines, each running different forms of the UNIX operating system.
tettie is an x86 machine running Linux whose main job is to provide internet access, via a 1.5M/384K ADSL connection, to the rest of the network. It serves as a gateway and firewall box, runs httpd, ircd, and ftpd, and provides DNS services for bitey.net and several other domains. Hardware for this machine is:
The rack itself is a little 14U Milestek rolling equipment rack, which gives me enough space for everything yet is small enough to put out of the way in the corner of the room. It's got a 1400VA APC UPS in it, which gives about 70 minutes of running time in the event of a power failure, and a Cisco Catalyst 2924 24-port 10/100 ethernet switch (it's got its own damned web server!)
wakko is the "main" machine, where I do all my work.
It runs Linux (sense
a trend?) Hardware consists of:
For a display, the machine has two 20" Dell 2001FP LCD monitors.
3jane provides all the other useful services for bitey.net, such as
serving as an enormous audio (MP3/SHN) file server, a backup DNS
server, and a place to
store other useless junk. It runs the Linux operating system. Its vitals:
gracie is a Sun Ultra 30, a machine I use mainly for playing around on and running Xterms. It runs the Solaris 8 operating system in 128MB of RAM. It has an internal 4G Fujitsu SCSI-2 disk and a 250 MHz Ultrasparc II CPU.
gracie gets "upgraded" once a year or so. An upgrade consists, more or less, of eBaying the old Sparc and buying a new one with the proceeds and some spare cash. It's gone from a Sparc 1+ to a Classic (which I gave away, actually) to a 5/170 to a 20/612 to an Ultra 30 in 2 years' time.
SGI Octane 2x250 MHz R10000. This replaces an older
Indigo2 R4400 (200 MHz). 640MB RAM, 18GB disk (2x9). Used for DAT transfers (S/PDIF inputs on the
back of it.)