Re: Debian firewall/router distro?

2001-11-21 Thread Robb Kidd
Jesse Goerz wrote: ... [boss] wanted to buy a Cobalt but I recommended we install a smoothwall machine instead. [...] Whatever I install I have to be able to convince him that he can semi-administer it if I'm not there. Is there a debian-firewall/router distro similar in function to smoothw

Re: Debian firewall/router distro?

2001-11-21 Thread Robb Kidd
Jesse Goerz wrote: > ... [boss] wanted to buy > a Cobalt but I recommended we install a smoothwall machine > instead. [...] Whatever I install I have to be able > to convince him that he can semi-administer it if I'm not there. > > Is there a debian-firewall/router distr

Re: stable vs testing

2001-11-17 Thread Robb Kidd
Nick Jennings wrote: This brings up a question I have. Isn't testing technically the *last* of stable/testing/unstable to get security fixes? Correct. security fixes for stable are packported immediately, and the fixes are also incorporated into unstable asap. Now for testing, there would be a

Re: stable vs testing

2001-11-16 Thread Robb Kidd
Nick Jennings wrote: > This brings up a question I have. Isn't testing technically the *last* > of stable/testing/unstable to get security fixes? Correct. > security fixes for stable are packported immediately, and the fixes are > also incorporated into unstable asap. Now for testing,

Re: HA mailserver (smtp, pop3, imap, imap/ssl)

2001-10-10 Thread Robb Kidd
For High Availability happiness Alejandro Borges recommends: Check out CODA, GFS (SAN capable, fault tolerant, network logging file system) and the LVS AFAIK, thats the best of breed of the free HA solutions... Linkage: * Coda - http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/ * GFS - http://opengfs.org/ - (Open)GF

Re: HA mailserver (smtp, pop3, imap, imap/ssl)

2001-10-10 Thread Robb Kidd
For High Availability happiness Alejandro Borges recommends: > Check out CODA, GFS (SAN capable, fault tolerant, network logging file > system) and the LVS AFAIK, thats the best of breed of the free HA > solutions... Linkage: * Coda - http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/ * GFS - http://opengfs.org/ -

ISP status monitoring.

2001-08-02 Thread Robb Kidd
I'm giving this a whirl on debian-isp as I figure its subscribers have the most experience with this. I'm looking into setuping up network monitoring on one of my home boxes to keep my cable ISP (Cox/Road Runner) honest. I'd like to check basic connectivity and DNS service up/down/speed a

Re: get school connected to the inet

2001-04-22 Thread Robb Kidd
Craig Sanders wrote: > [...] > the correct solution to the problem is teaching the kids to be > responsible, making sure they understand what the rules are for > their internet access, and monitoring them to make sure they're > not getting up to mischief. > > this might mean setting up squid to

Re: get school connected to the inet

2001-04-22 Thread Robb Kidd
Craig Sanders wrote: > [...] > the correct solution to the problem is teaching the kids to be > responsible, making sure they understand what the rules are for > their internet access, and monitoring them to make sure they're > not getting up to mischief. > > this might mean setting up squid to