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juris:
Hi guys!
Ī was wondering if anyone could give me some hints how to configure networking in FreeBSD? 'cauce i really don't have time for reading lot of documentation.
I'd like to know where should i put:
1. My IP (which is virtual, e.g. 192.168.x.x);
2. DNS srever IP (i know it goes in /etc/resolv.conf, but maybe there is some other files it should be in)
3. Gateway addres
4. Proxy server addres
What start-up scripts I should edit and how if any?
i think that's all for now.
Thanks.
ju
voidmain:
Try this:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-post.html
Master of Reality:
what OS should i choose to be an IP masquerading/DHCP (doesnt have to have DHCP) server for the net, and perhaps in time, a proxy server?
I was thinking maybe freeBSD, red hat (redhat needs 32 MB of RAM and i only have 16MB), or another *NIX variant such as Kaladix or Yggdrasil.
I am going to put it on a pentium MMX 166MHZ, 16MB RAM. (i dont need a GUI, of course.)
another thing...
where is the network configuration where i change stuff like: gateway, DNS, DHCP, IP?
[ April 12, 2002: Message edited by: Master of Reality ]
[ April 12, 2002: Message edited by: Master of Reality ]
voidmain:
Well it should be pretty easy to find some old RAM chips lying around with everyone upgrading to newer machines and RAM types. And you should be able to get it for just about nothing. I would certainly upgrade the RAM, especially if you want to run a caching proxy.
Having said that I use RedHat for all of the above. In fact my firewall/vpn/proxy/dns/dhcp/web/more server is still running RedHat 6.1 because it's worked so well for so long I've never done a full upgrade of it. And I was using RedHat 5.2 to do it before that. Sure I upgrade specific pieces of it now and then but not a full upgrade.
If you do decide to use RedHat 7.2 the default firewall software would be iptables/ipchains. This will also do your masquerading. Squid for your proxy (best proxy server out there) and it's config file would be found in /etc/squid/squid.conf. For DHCP you would install the dhcpd package and the config would be in /etc/dhcpd (oddly enough). DNS you would install bind* RPMs.
And if you are new to all of those things and want a nice graphical way to set everything up and probably make your life very easy I would suggest downloading the latest "webmin" RPM from http://www.webmin.com and install it. You can configure all of those services from webmin. Webmin is probably the best configuration utility I have found. I personally never use it and prefer to configure everything manually but my partners love it. And look at http://www.webmin.com/support.html for a list of all of the supported operating systems. All of the popular Linux distros, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, SGI, *BSD, and even OSX and Darwin and many more. It really is becoming a sweet administration tool and I would not be one bit surprised if it will become the default on nearly all *NIX like OSs very soon.
Don't forget after installing to look at the errata section on RedHat's web site and get any bug/security RPMs applied. And most important, turn off any services that you do not intend to use. (telnet, ftp, nfs, portmap, finger, etc).
[ April 12, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]
Master of Reality:
quote:Originally posted by X11:
Slackware would be good, be FreeBSD is good.
I used to have Red-Hat 7.0 on a PPro 150 with only 24mb of ram
--- End quote ---
quote:Origanally posted by VoidMain:
i really scary thing is that my brother had Win95 running with only 8MB of RAM.Well it should be pretty easy to find some old RAM chips lying around with everyone upgrading to newer machines and RAM types. And you should be able to get it for just about nothing. I would certainly upgrade the RAM, especially if you want to run a caching proxy.
--- End quote ---
do you think 80 megs would be enough? I figure i could also use a big swap partition, it wouldnt be too bad. I have 3 (soon 4) comps on my network, so i might decide not to use DHCP although it is easier, and i'm lazy. I will probably end up using red hat 7.2.
I am going to put freeBSD on my main computer and try it out for a while though.
Has anyone else heard of Kaladix???
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