markiemrboo Posted July 17, 2005 Posted July 17, 2005 Yea I was hoping for two network cards of its complicated I'll just get a router. 511126[/snapback] Well my own set up is an ethernet ADSL modem with two network cards in the box, so I could help you out with that one. Suppose it depends just how much you want to get in to the whole unixey managing a FreeBSD box type thing Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
galla2k4eva Posted July 17, 2005 Posted July 17, 2005 I'll see if I can get an unwanted router off someone if not would it be easy to get everything set up before I set It up as a gateway? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
markiemrboo Posted July 17, 2005 Posted July 17, 2005 I'll see if I can get an unwanted router off someone if not would it be easy to get everything set up before I set It up as a gateway? 511133[/snapback] It's not really too difficult. You could have my firewall set with a few small changes (by no means am I a firewall expert, but I have had no problems with it so far!) and... setting up nat is fairly straight forward. /etc/natd.conf same_ports yes use_sockets yes dynamic yes interface fxp1 where "fxp1" is the interface the modem is attached to (my second network card). /etc/rc.conf # NATD natd_enable="YES" natd_flags="-f /etc/natd.conf" That makes natd start at startup. Then you're just left sorting the firewall out. Which does require a kernel recompile to add a couple of options, but even that's pretty straight forward. Router is going to probably be easier, but setting it up as a gateway shouldn't be too difficult as I have a firewall ruleset you could use.. so you wouldn't have to figure that one out Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
galla2k4eva Posted July 17, 2005 Posted July 17, 2005 Okay so if I can't get a router no worries. Does that sendmail thing let you set up a mailserver? That might be helpfull in the future. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
markiemrboo Posted July 17, 2005 Posted July 17, 2005 Okay so if I can't get a router no worries. Does that sendmail thing let you set up a mailserver? That might be helpfull in the future. 511145[/snapback] If you wanted a mail server I would recommend installing postfix from ports But yes, sendmail is the traditional SMTP server. If you were to be also needing a POP3 server to actually retreive e-mail from other boxes, I aint too sure. I use IMAP and have been using courier-imap. I think there's a courier POP3 server too though if you don't want IMAP (amongst other POP3 servers I am sure, but courier would be the first place I would look as.. courier imap works very well) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
galla2k4eva Posted July 17, 2005 Posted July 17, 2005 Okay I'll look into that during the week. Last week of school so I'll have plenty of time to do all this stuff soon. But atm im addicted to KO Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaguy02 Posted July 17, 2005 Posted July 17, 2005 I would suggest fedora if you are new to linux Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
galla2k4eva Posted July 17, 2005 Posted July 17, 2005 bit late for that =/ made my mind up DEFINATELY freeBSD Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaronamd Posted July 17, 2005 Posted July 17, 2005 just finished (for the most part) my freeBSD box, it rocks! stable as ever with a really small amount of ram and performes great. do they have a freebsd for dummies book? if so im getting one. like mrboo said it really is pretty straight forward. I have now become an apostle of the BSD! mwahahahahaha! mwahaha! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
galla2k4eva Posted July 18, 2005 Posted July 18, 2005 Cool, buying case at the weekend. Hopefully I will get it set up by the end of the weekend, if not end of the week. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
markiemrboo Posted July 18, 2005 Posted July 18, 2005 just finished (for the most part) my freeBSD box, it rocks! stable as ever with a really small amount of ram and performes great.do they have a freebsd for dummies book? if so im getting one. like mrboo said it really is pretty straight forward. I have now become an apostle of the BSD! mwahahahahaha! mwahaha! 511310[/snapback] I dont think they have a FreeBSD for dummies book, it's not as popular as Linux. They do have this one.. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...=glance&s=books Which I hear is very good. It's not that difficult really I think the slice / partition bit is definately the hardest part. Updating your system from source isn't even that hard! Nor is compiling a new kernel I'll write step by steps for those two things too. Cool, buying case at the weekend. Hopefully I will get it set up by the end of the weekend, if not end of the week. 511519[/snapback] Nice nice. I should have a Samba and PHP install guide for you (and possibly a few more) done by then Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
galla2k4eva Posted July 18, 2005 Posted July 18, 2005 Thanks man you have been really helpfull. =D Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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