[lug] Knowledge shopping list

[Chris Wade]

Thanks for the info, FA311 it is.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Horne [mailto:jeerygh at hotmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 6:21 PM
> To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Subject: Re: [lug] Knowledge shopping list
> 
> 
> If your NIC is an FA311TX, then that's your problem.  It seems that 
> FA310TX's are supported and I think 312 but not 311's.  I 
> believe there is a 
> patch on www.netgear.com
> 
> Greg Horne
> 
> >From: Chris Wade <cwade at veripost.net>
> >Reply-To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> >To: "'lug at lug.boulder.co.us'" <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
> >Subject: [lug] Knowledge shopping list
> >Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 12:59:13 -0600
> >
> >Thanks all for all the help and information on telnetd 
> security.  I am
> >inspired to put together a 'knowledge shopping list' with 
> all the things I
> >am going to need to know to get my setup working the way I 
> want it.. any
> >pointers to technical docs, previous threads etc. would be greatly
> >appreciated... :)
> >
> >Here's what I have (hope my ascii graphics come across well):
> >
> >Internet
> >  |
> >  V
> >At&t at home cable modem
> >(supports NAT)
> >  |
> >  V
> >Hub --> Suse 7.1 Pro w/ everything installed
> >  |----> Win2000 Laptop, used for VPN to work
> >  |----> WinME laptop (ugh)
> >
> >This setup is okay, we all get out to the internet with it, 
> but I want to 
> >do
> >a lot more.  Here's what I think I would like:
> >
> >Internet
> >  |
> >  V
> >Something better than cable modem for running a server
> >  |
> >  V
> >Suse 7.1 acting as firewall, web server, mailrouter, 
> gateway, development
> >environment
> >  |
> >  V
> >Hub
> >  |
> >  V
> >Home network consisting of The abovementioned Windows 
> laptops plus an old
> >PowerMac
> >
> >
> >I've read messages here where people refer to setups like 
> this that they
> >have running... is this pretty standard?  I know that, at a 
> minimum, I want
> >to be running Apache w/PHP 4.0.6 with mysql and 
> postgresql... haven't used
> >postgres at all but would like to learn it... I'm okay with 
> setting up the
> >Apache/PHP stuff.  I've done that so many times at work it 
> makes me dizzy.
> >But I also need to figure out how to get my second network 
> card running
> >(Netgear, box says linux supported but it didn't detect), 
> and then set it 
> >up
> >so that I can still access the internet from all four 
> machines as well as
> >get mail routed to the three behind the firewall.  I have a 
> domain pointed
> >to this box... I use mail forwarding as a registrar service, 
> where all mail
> >to my domain gets forwarded to a single address, but I would 
> like to have a
> >lot more control over it (i.e. separate addresses to 
> separate mailboxes).
> >Will still need to do VPN through the linux firewall to 
> work, and oh yes, I
> >will want to set up Samba (which I've done) and Netatalk 
> (which I haven't
> >done).
> >
> >At&t requests that you don't run a server w/ one of their 
> cable modems, and
> >I can understand why... bandwidth shrinks dramatically in 
> the outgoing
> >direction and tends to clog things up for everybody else.  Is there 
> >anything
> >else of comparable cost that would be more amenable to this 
> kind of usage?
> >If not, what am I looking at paying (roughly) if I want to 
> up my outgoing
> >bandwidth by using some other service?
> >
> >Thanks in advance for help with all or just parts of this...
> >
> >Chris
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