Mickey (also known as Frankenstein's monster) was put together
out of donated spare parts, and originally did sterling service routing
packets between our internal ethernet and the outside world.
It's was then upgraded from a 4meg 386 to a 486DX2 with 8Mb RAM and an old IDE hard disk,
with RedHat 4.1 on kernel 2.0.27.
The case, however, was of gargantuan proportions and the PSU made MS
operating systems look reliable, so they had to be ditched.
Short of any form of protection, Mickey spent several weeks lying naked
on John Ireland's bookshelf. Then, an opportunity presented itself to see
if Mickey was still alive... but the video card appeared to be broken.
Mickey has since gone to pieces and is spread between the rooms of Andrew
and John... But he shall rise like a phoenix from the ashes. Oh Yes!
After continued revival attempts, Mickey was finally restored to working
order in Hilary Term 1998. Running Linux (RedHat 5.0) and supporting secure
shell through a firewall, Mickey was proving itself to be stable under a
variety of loads.
Mickey was then kidnapped and after spending a brief spell in
Stuart Adamson's room (where he added a second network card, connected them
together and left mickey forwarding gigabytes of data every day for a week
and installed this wierd operating system called FreeBSD on it). It is back
in Trinity acting as a firewall for the network.
Network Connectivity by Trinity
College
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Mickey