fedora as a gateway / server
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Wed May 30 06:52:11 UTC 2007
Michael.Coll-Barth at VerizonWireless.com wrote:
> I need a little guidance, not just a set of 'do this' instructions.
> Although, I won't toss those! :)
>
> I have built a small network at home for the family using five windows
> boxes and one Linux box. Currently, everything plugs into a DSL Modem
> for Internet connectivity.
>
> I would like to change this to have a Linux box ( Pentium II )
> residential serve as a gateway to provide firewall and proxy services.
> I suppose that it will also need to behave as a DHCP server? Will it
> need a second NIC installed that will attach to a hub for the other
> boxes? Is Fedora too big an OS for this? Something smaller, Ubuntu?
You can build a special purpose box out of a general purpose
distribution but its a lot of unnecessary work, and fedora's short
support life cycle makes it a questionable starting point. Look at the
smeserver (http://www.contribs.org), clarkconnect
(http://www.clarkconnect.com/), and ipcop (http://www.ipcop.org)
distributions before deciding you can do better.
> In addition, it would be nice to have another Linux box ( Pentium III )
> acting as a web/db/file server. I plan to use Apache and Oracle for
> this. Is Samba still what I should use to store Windows files? Is
> there a mature IIS 6 'clone' or drop in replacement out there? I
> haven't looked for this yet, so, don't yell.
The SMEserver disro can do this too, all configured with a simple web
interface, and on the same or a different box than the internet gateway
although the canned appliance-like configs can make it difficult to
add things it doesn't include.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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