resurrecting Elsie...
Long time visitors of this site of course know Elsie, my beloved 33MHz webserver…
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Elsie gently hit the net in december 2004 and she’s been having some peculiarities every now and then. (that’s not the reason I refer to her as a female machine, also the only machine in my house I refer to that way, but, well, it very well could be of course *^_^* )
Anyway, sometimes she crashes everyday and sometimes she runs for months on end. Late last year I put yet another router into my network and decided to give Elsie a rest before I had the port-forwarding up and running. I actually totally forgot about her, but now, with all the router madness going on in my closet, I thought it was a pretty decent time to wake up Elsie after a long sleep and resurrect her…
If she feels like it, you can find this server here.
now please, don’t get mad if she doesn’t feel like serving you, it’s nothing personal, okay?
UPDATE in the first 48 hours after posting this, Elsie handled 344 unique visitors. Now I don’t have any stats running, that’s what I got after cat-ing and grep-ing with the access_log and even though 344 visitors is something completely else than for instance this, it puts a similar smile on my face *^_^* Elsie FTW!
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...and yes, Elsie’s traffic is coming to you, through the setup I mentioned in my previous post. That routing setup now clocks in at a multitude of the MIPS Elsie does…
Of course, resurrecting Elsie is also a brilliant reason for me to rant on about other stuff going on in my closet, even though I promised I’d stop about that ^_^
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I finally got a proper use for yet another toy, a HP secure webconsole I bought ages ago. I now used it to reconfigure my Cisco again, after I changed the network devices in there, but I can just as easily plug it into the LOM of the Sun, to check up on that machine. I changed the network devices in my Cisco yesterday because last week a package from China (via eBay) arrived with two times the 1FE-2R2W inside:
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So, now this Cisco has two fast ethernet ports and thereby the whole setup with the Cisco and the Sun is fully 100 mbit full duplex. My private traffic now travels over six (fast) ethernet devices before it enters and/or leaves my house… hmmmz…
LEDs on the back…
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On eBay I’ve also been bidding on the NM-2E2W, a network module with two fast ethernet devices on it. Now in the end it was cheaper for me to buy two times the NM-1E2R2W instead of one NM-2E2W… Next to the fact that I got double the hardware for less money, two modules instead of one, there’s also another advantage I hadn’t thought about up front:
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Good to hear that Elsie is still up and running (at least sometimes;-) Feel free to keep posting about your closet, I find it quite interesting, and it has been giving me lots of interesting ideas for my own routing setup!
I love this site…
This site is a great inspiration to me and some of the ideas I have.
Anyway, I’m shocked you have not acquired a small network rack for your closet, something small with wheels. Racking all that stuff would prolly help cleaning it up.
Thanks for a great site.
Nice on the LC475. Can I interest you in an LC II? ;) It has no ethernet port, otherwise I’d hook it up myself.
how did ya make her into a server? do u pay a certain ammount to her ur web page coming from her, or do u just get it for free since u r the provider?