I`ve decided to upgrade my bedrooms network from 100 mbit to gigabit ethernet speed.
For this reason I brought a 3Com 3CGSU05A Gigabit Switch.
Several months ago I replaced all 5e cables and replaced several patch cables by cat. 6.
I also equipped my server with a dual interface gigabit ethernet card.
Next step in the network upgrade will be to replace the 100 mbit backbone between the two networks with a gigabit ethernet backbone. For this I have to buy a new Cisco GBIC.
Yesterday I`ve managed to get my new Cobalt to boot.
I`ve installed Strongbolt OS 1.0.6 on the machine and upgraded to Strongbolt 2.
This upgrade included a new bootrom kernel (2.6.23.8-i586), which includes some changes to be able to boot from a USB device.
Strongbolt 2 still uses CentOS 4 as backend.
Later this week I will put some effort into it to make the machine boot BlueOnyx 5.4, which is based on CentOS 5.4
By having a newer CentOS version I also have a newer kernel and the ability to use newer packages.
I can`t wait to get MySQL 5.5 and PHP 5.3 on the machine.
Another thing I still have to do is to buy another Cisco Serial cable to connect the two routers to my webserver.
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