The Potential of a Dell Poweredge 2400

[goobernoodles]

My friend just bought a used Dell Poweredge 2400 server and he and I both have absolutely no knowledge of what the capabilities of it are. ...Or how to utilize those capabilites.

We're both in a dorm in college, so I'm not sure if there is going to be a problem with some network firewall or what...

I'd assume that the thing is too slow to try to set up a cs 1.6 server for ourselves; is this true?

What all COULD we use it for?

 

[JBT]

What are the specs of it? CPU speed, amount of memory, HDD space/interface (IDE/SCSI). On a side note CS 1.6 servers don't really require too much processing power.

 

[dexvx]

I ran a CS 1.5 server on a P3-700 with 448MB memory years back. For <30 person non-bot Pugs and Scrim servers, it can do fine.

Spec sheet says it can take P3's up to 933 with 4GB memory.

 

[Atheus]

Specs? Open it up and check. It might have a single ~500Mhz processor, 256MB of RAM and a 9GB disk, in which case it's quite crap but still probably good enough for a CS server. It might have dual 1.1Ghz PIII-S processors with 2M of cache, 2GB of RAM, and a 10K SCS RAID-5 array...

 

[Lord Evermore]

Running servers for most games takes only a small amount of CPU power, and zero 3D graphics power since it's not actually running the game interface. All they're really doing is keeping track of where people are and what they are doing, not processing physics or anything.

The only firewall issues would be the same ones you run into plugging in any other computer.

You could use it to practice setting up and using Linux, if either of you doesn't know how. You could use it to play around with Windows Domains. You could run your own mail server with your own domain (if that wouldn't violate your school's terms for use of the network, and frankly is probably a bad idea since you'd likely end up with a very insecure box until you learned better). You could just plug it in and let it run some distributed computing client and do nothing else with it.

 

[goobernoodles]

I believe its a P3 733... 2gb of ram, I believe, my buddy is out of town this weekend, I'll check the specs later.

Considering I know nothing about setting up a server, how would we go about setting up a cs server?

 

[Atheus]

Originally posted by: goobernoodles
I believe its a P3 733... 2gb of ram, I believe, my buddy is out of town this weekend, I'll check the specs later.

Considering I know nothing about setting up a server, how would we go about setting up a cs server?

Install and patch server operating system, install and patch CS server program, install local firewall and security programs. Done.