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Fishy was so named at the request of its donor; there's probably a
story behind the name, but this is not the place for it.
Fishy is an NCR 3300, with a 486DX2/66 and ludicrously large amounts of
memory (well, 96 Mb - ludicrous by Linux standards when we aquired it!).
The fact that Fishy uses IBM's MicroChannel Architecture, which
wasn't supported by stock 2.0 Linux, meant that a bit of work was required
to get up and running. The
linux-mca project was a very useful
resource in this regard.
Despite this, we got it running a somewhat hacked version of linux
(kernel 2.0.30) and if ran as our main user box for over 2 years.
However, with sticky entering the network, services were slowly migrated from
fishy to sticky and when fishy was no longing running anything important,
it was taken out of service, where a second net
card was introduced and redhat 5.9 (with linux 2.2.5 - the 2.2.x series has
MCA support in the kernel) was installed on it. However, our fun with MCA
hadn't finished as the 2.2.5 kernel didn't support multiple 3c523 net cards,
so a late night hacking session was required to make it support it.
Now firing on all cylinders again, fishy has replaced daffy as our gateway
and mail server.
Network Connectivity by Trinity
College
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