Bill Maas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 12:51 -0400, Stephen Brown Jr wrote:
> > > You may find that you prefer one of the BSDs.
> >
> > I was just sitting here playing with OpenBSD and it's been a hair
> > raising experience so far :/
> >
>
> Maybe this will reassure you:
On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 12:51 -0400, Stephen Brown Jr wrote:
> > You may find that you prefer one of the BSDs.
>
> I was just sitting here playing with OpenBSD and it's been a hair
> raising experience so far :/
>
Maybe this will reassure you: tho OpenBSD approach towards new (Linux)
users seems
On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 00:21 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 07:46:24PM -0400, Stephen Brown wrote:
> > Well I'm looking to get away from my old PC and jump into an embedded
> > platform because I think it will be challenging, fun and educational while
> > fullfilling a
I am running Fedora 8 on my 5501. It is not only a router/firewall, it
is running:
bind
DHCPD
ntpd
OpenLDAP
Samba
NFS
dovecot
postfix
amavis-new
spamassassin
ClamAV
Bacula
apache, mod_svn, mod_authz_ldap
proftpd
openssh
OpenVPN
Kerberos
postgresql, postgis
jabberd
I test software for a living an
On 2008-05-23, Farid Hajji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 23 May 2008 12:51:54 -0400
> "Stephen Brown Jr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Does OpenBSD use iptables just like linux for packet filtering? Are
>> there any good front ends for it? (I really like Firehol, Shorewall,
>> or a web bas
Chris Babcock wrote:
> Stephen Brown Jr wrote:
>> Does OpenBSD use iptables just like linux for packet filtering? Are
>> there any good front ends for it? (I really like Firehol, Shorewall, or
>> a web based frontend)
>
> Also, you may want to read a bit about
> "IPFilter" which is the system u
On Fri, 23 May 2008 12:51:54 -0400
"Stephen Brown Jr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does OpenBSD use iptables just like linux for packet filtering? Are
> there any good front ends for it? (I really like Firehol, Shorewall,
> or a web based frontend)
Try pf:
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/
http://e
Been spending the afternoon reading about PF, it's really grabbed my
attention! I think I'm going to play with this some more this weekend, looks
extremely robust.
I also found NSH on the flashdist site that was mentioned earlier, that
looks pretty good as well.
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 3:15 PM, C
On Fri, 23 May 2008 10:14:52 -0400
Mike Chirico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 08:35:38AM -0400, Stephen Brown Jr wrote:
> > Wow some awesome responses!!! Thanks guys!
>
> I'd recommend the following:
>
> net5501-70
> SanDisk 8GB CompactFlash Card (30MB/s)
> Atheros Wirele
Stephen Brown Jr wrote:
> > You may find that you prefer one of the BSDs.
>
> I was just sitting here playing with OpenBSD and it's been a hair
> raising experience so far :/
>
> I set up a basic install in Vmware and the install was a little tricky,
> but I managed to get it. OpenBSD may be a
> You may find that you prefer one of the BSDs.
I was just sitting here playing with OpenBSD and it's been a hair raising
experience so far :/
I set up a basic install in Vmware and the install was a little tricky, but
I managed to get it. OpenBSD may be a little more for me to swallow right
now
Stephen Brown Jr wrote:
> Wow some awesome responses!!! Thanks guys!
>
> Seems like the consensus says that the 4801 is an obvious choice for me,
> I may focus my sights on that. Still not sure what firewall solution I
> am going to use yet, I'll admit I'm a little Debian biased, but playing
>
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 08:35:38AM -0400, Stephen Brown Jr wrote:
> Wow some awesome responses!!! Thanks guys!
>
> Seems like the consensus says that the 4801 is an obvious choice for me, I
> may focus my sights on that. Still not sure what firewall solution I am
> going to use yet, I'll admit I'm
I saw that the other day, at least they fixed it quickly :D
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 9:06 AM, Trevor Talbot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On May 23, 2008, at 5:43 AM, Marc Balmer wrote:
>
> If you go with Debian, don't use the latest version, the latest versions
>> of any software are usually not
On May 23, 2008, at 5:43 AM, Marc Balmer wrote:
> If you go with Debian, don't use the latest version, the latest
> versions of any software are usually not so stable. I suggest take
> a Debian from like mid-2007 or early-2008.
>
> oh, and use ssh and certificates to secure your communication
* Stephen Brown Jr wrote:
> Wow some awesome responses!!! Thanks guys!
>
> Seems like the consensus says that the 4801 is an obvious choice for me, I
> may focus my sights on that. Still not sure what firewall solution I am
> going to use yet, I'll admit I'm a little Debian biased, but playing wit
Wow some awesome responses!!! Thanks guys!
Seems like the consensus says that the 4801 is an obvious choice for me, I
may focus my sights on that. Still not sure what firewall solution I am
going to use yet, I'll admit I'm a little Debian biased, but playing with
BSD may be advantageous as well se
Hi Stephen,
I was in the same situation as you previously a few years ago. I
bought a net4801 and have found it more than powerfull enough for my
20mbit internet cable connection, it also has a Wirlesless Atheos card
in it and so acts as the WAP as well. Whilst I had previously a good
knowledge of
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 04:08:40PM -0400, Stephen Brown Jr wrote:
>I'm new to this platform, and embedded computing as well and I want to
>build a router for my home network. Right now I'm using Smoothwall on
>an old Gateway system.
>I'd like to stay with that, or maybe try pfsense
> Although one of my favorite distros, IMO pfSense
> just won't make it on the 4501 any more. I don't know how either of
> them will fare on the 4801,
I run pfSense on a couple of Net4801 units - they do quite well for my
usage, including the newest 1.2 release. One of them is a full NAT/
fi
> I notice nobody has suggested a net4501. Although older and slower, it
> is fairly capable and would probably cover your needs for a basic
> router.
m0n0wall 1.2 runs pretty well on the 4501, but 1.3 just about exceeds
he 4501's resources last I checked (during beta) when you try to do
anything
I installed vyatta on a net4801 after some messing around.
I did the install in vmware and then copied as a tarfile to the CF card,
but it didn't work first off, I had to edit mtab and a few other files.
If you can install direct to the CF card then that would make things
easier, but watch out for
On May 22, 2008, at 1:08 PM, Stephen Brown Jr wrote:
> I'm new to this platform, and embedded computing as well and I want
> to build a router for my home network. Right now I'm using
> Smoothwall on an old Gateway system.
>
> I'd like to stay with that, or maybe try pfsense or possibly roll m
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 04:08:40PM -0400, Stephen Brown Jr wrote:
> I'm new to this platform, and embedded computing as well and I want to build
> a router for my home network. Right now I'm using Smoothwall on an old
> Gateway system.
>
> I'd like to stay with that, or maybe try pfsense or possib
On Thu, 22 May 2008, jmc wrote:
> --- Stephen Brown [Thu, May 22, 2008 at 07:46:24PM -0400]: ---
> > Well I'm looking to get away from my old PC and jump into an embedded
> > platform because I think it will be challenging, fun and educational
> > while fullfilling a need at the same time, and I
--- Stephen Brown [Thu, May 22, 2008 at 07:46:24PM -0400]: ---
> Well I'm looking to get away from my old PC and jump into an embedded
> platform because I think it will be challenging, fun and educational
> while fullfilling a need at the same time, and I already have a
> dedicated switch so t
For a home network a few megabits of Internet connectivity, anything
modern would be overkill, especially as you already have a dedicated
switch and wireless AP. If you're just building a one-off personal
machine and want to save a few bucks, there's nothing wrong with
buying one of the "end of li
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 07:46:24PM -0400, Stephen Brown wrote:
> Well I'm looking to get away from my old PC and jump into an embedded
> platform because I think it will be challenging, fun and educational while
> fullfilling a need at the same time, and I already have a dedicated switch
> so th
Well I'm looking to get away from my old PC and jump into an embedded
platform because I think it will be challenging, fun and educational
while fullfilling a need at the same time, and I already have a
dedicated switch so the 4 port card wouldn't help me.
I have been running Smoothwall for a c
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 04:08:40PM -0400, Stephen Brown Jr wrote:
> I'm new to this platform, and embedded computing as well and I want to build
> a router for my home network. Right now I'm using Smoothwall on an old
> Gateway system.
>
> I'd like to stay with that, or maybe try pfsense or possib
I'm new to this platform, and embedded computing as well and I want to build
a router for my home network. Right now I'm using Smoothwall on an old
Gateway system.
I'd like to stay with that, or maybe try pfsense or possibly roll my own
using Debian. I run a small network with about 3-5 machines w
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