Early Vid: Expanding my Homelab Dial-up Setup
Added 2024-06-12 22:20:19 +0000 UTCLet's get a Dreamcast online. This video is all about me learning how to use VIC, or Voice Interface Cards, and combining a bunch of Cisco gear together to get multiple dial-up lines available down here in the basement.
Video goes live tomorrow or Friday!
Comments
Haha my wife is in good company then. That'll be a nice setup!
clabretro
2024-06-20 20:06:56 +0000 UTCYou're a good (my opinion) / bad (my wife's opinion) influence on me. I just picked up a 2911, HWIC-1DSU-T1, VIC2-2FXO, VIC3-4FXS/DIS, SM-ES2-16-P, and PVDM-16 off of craigslist for cash on hand. 😁
DrScriptt
2024-06-20 18:25:19 +0000 UTCIf you want to open modern web pages on old devices like dreamcast, try this https://github.com/ttalvitie/browservice
matti157
2024-06-14 18:35:48 +0000 UTCyeah it was stuck, I think something like that is definitely the next step!
clabretro
2024-06-14 03:37:46 +0000 UTCthank you! I picked up a couple on ebay so I'll let you know where I end up!
clabretro
2024-06-14 03:37:03 +0000 UTCBTW, I have some more 2821's that have the vdm cards if you need some!
Kevin Arnold
2024-06-14 03:23:44 +0000 UTCWoot, my 2821 gets used! I'm a little late to the video but excited to see it get some use 😁
Kevin Arnold
2024-06-14 03:14:43 +0000 UTCThe Cisco-based dial-up ISP in a box is a really cool idea. Re: that Dreamcast web browser, it wasn't clear to me whether you were stuck because it wouldn't proceed without first loading whatever website it was trying to load. If it lets you skip it but you just skipped that offscreen, pay this no mind. If you did actually get stuck there, you might consider lying to it? You could configure the router as a DNS server [1] , run `debug domain` so you can see what it asks for, and then configure a static DNS entry with `ip host `. Point it to some web server on your Proxmox server and give it a page to see if it renders it. [1] https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/ipaddr_dns/configuration/15-mt/dns-15-mt-book/dns-config-dns.html#GUID-19AECCB2-7437-45AF-BFDA-AE5C1176C0A1
Eric
2024-06-14 00:53:11 +0000 UTCAlso, Airport Base Station, eh? I just got an iBook G3 today (300MHz) and am living my childhood dreams.
Liquorist
2024-06-13 05:23:17 +0000 UTCWoah! Share the Dreamcast wealth! 😂
Liquorist
2024-06-13 05:22:43 +0000 UTCone day!
clabretro
2024-06-13 01:20:03 +0000 UTCha that is awesome. I remember my buddy's little brother racked up a ~$500 bill playing PSO back in the day and got some serious heat from his parents haha
clabretro
2024-06-13 01:16:34 +0000 UTCThat'd be sweet. My Dad has a TRS-80 Model III he bought brand new back in the day, hoping to snag that from him someday.
clabretro
2024-06-13 01:11:25 +0000 UTCI ran X on it, but I barely knew what I was doing and didn't like twm so I almost exclusively used NetBSD on the Dreamcast to telnet to a "real" machine and run BitchX.
Ross Nelson
2024-06-13 00:20:15 +0000 UTCI remember my mind being blown when people started porting emulators and bsds to the Dreamcast. Seeing X11 working on it was so cool. Especially because I was never able to get X11 working in Debian potato on my Packard Bell PC.
Will G.
2024-06-13 00:19:03 +0000 UTCI remember in high school and college (2000 and 2001), I found a guide to fake a dial up server with windows 98 so I could play DC PSO with a broadband connection but no DC broadband adapter. These days all the guides for that call for a USB modem and a raspberry pi.
Will G.
2024-06-13 00:16:35 +0000 UTCVery cool. I've been wanting to simulate a POTS network for my retro computer collection. I would love to have my //gs host a bbs and be able to dial into it from my TRS-80 Model II.
Glen Dady
2024-06-12 23:51:14 +0000 UTCFun fact re your failure to use the browser: I actually reached out to the people who owned the PlanetWeb website back in like 2006 or something because they'd taken the website offline and it broke the browser. This was long before I knew I could do things like set up my own DNS for that start page and run something locally. They put it back online for me. :)
Ross Nelson
2024-06-12 23:34:07 +0000 UTCObviously, your setup isn't going to scale super well, with you having to manually set up multiple things for every client. Gonna make it more like a real ISP with a fancy bank of settings that requires less manual configuration?
Ross Nelson
2024-06-12 23:31:44 +0000 UTCI can't find any pictures of it, but I remember using it. 🤔 It was on either version 2 or 3 of the browser CD.
Ross Nelson
2024-06-12 22:43:59 +0000 UTCHa I didn't know about the IRC client!
clabretro
2024-06-12 22:35:37 +0000 UTCI spent A LOT of hours with my Dreamcast running the web browser and using its built-in IRC client. I really should dig that thing out some year and try out a current version of NetBSD on it.
Ross Nelson
2024-06-12 22:30:12 +0000 UTC
