Server state between April 2001 and March 2003

First iteration of a home server. First time I had enough spares to get a working computer assembled!

Back in those days (2001), nobody had home servers and few knew about the existence of Linux. ISPs were advertising internet connections for single computers and would charge a monthly fee for every additional host that a customer would like to plug to the net. They were selling routers at silly prices and being quite anal about the "one host" thing, even implying legal prossecution.

Me? I had NAT!

A 3Com ethernet cable modem, two network cards, Debian Linux 2.2 and a four port 10/100 ethernet switch.