All my boxen are now in a consistent state.
The fileserver is running 4 x 120GB RAID 5 on a 3Ware, 2 x 18GB SCSI RAID 1, and a 30GB ATA disk for temporary storage. I installed the gigabit ethernet card which seems to work. Its now running 2.6.4.
The backup server now has a larger PSU, 256MB of RAM, and a gigabit ethernet card.
My workstation is booting 9.2GB SCSI with a 40GB disk serving as /home and a Windows 2000 Professional installation.
The only thing left, besides configuration the gigabit links for backup duty, is buying some nice CoolMaster fans. The ones I have now are noisy. I’m also missing four or five.
I finally implemented traffic shaping on the firewall, Rebecca, using Linux’s QoS implementation. Its now possible for me to completely saturate the practical maximum on my 1.5Mbps/256Kbps ADSL line without any serious lag. I can completely saturate my upstream and surf the Web, IM, or IRC with no additional latency. SSH has a minimum of lag as well. Outbound SSH is still laggy when my downstream is completely maxed, but that’s an ingress issue. I could configure an ingress policer, but I rarely saturate my downstream anyway.
Next, I intend to turn my attention to buying a Linux media device out of my old laptop. Its S-Video output is exception. I am thinking about using libxine and Kaffeine for KDE. It works well enough on my desktop. Some kind of auto play for CDs would be nice, too. It doesn’t have a DVD-ROM, though. Sadly those are really expensive for laptops. I need to investigate whether there are any USB IR plugin things I can use to configure some kind of IR device to control playing, stopping, mouse movement, and so on. That’d be slick.