On 2/2/06, Clifton Royston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 09:44:39AM -1000, Michael Bishop wrote: > ... > > >Future projects I would like to build - > > >OS fax server using a regular modem -> hylafax > > >personal email server w/ webmail, spam filter, anti virus etc. > > >firewall with inbound VPN capability > > I'd be willing to do some firewall-y demos of what you can do with an > off-the-shelf FreeBSD install with two network cards, in the way of > transparent network bridging with firewall filtering using ipf. I've > been running this style of firewall on my home network for about 7 > years, first on OpenBSD, then on FreeBSD with ipf. I also have a > dial-up backup kinda kludged together (not fully automatic, > unfortunately.)
I think some people would appricaite just knowing when FreeBSD is appropriate. If you had the time I would like to hear a talk on linux vs freebsd ve openbsd vs...... If you are willing, we will have to get that on the agenda (in case you are wondering, there is not an agenda) The firewall thing would be cool after the asterisk/fax server > I'd vote for Asterisk + fax server as the next sample project, I > would think those should go together nicely. I've been planning to > build one of those myself, to leverage all the multi-function jacks I > installed around the house. Sounds like a lot of folks want to do this.....done. I have local phone numbers people can use to test with. I could also present sometime on setting up a Windoze compatible home > fileserver using samba; I've got that running on my other FreeBSD > server with ~ 200GB RAID-1. My wife is just thrilled to be able to > just drag directories of her work files from her Windows folders onto > the file server folder to back them up. > > I know Don M. really wants a Samba server integrated with his active directory....maybe this could be after the asterisk/fax...what ever the masses want. -Matt
