IPCop has worked well for me for a number of years. I started with an
old 333MH celeron pc, added a couple nics, and was good to go. You
wouldn't need that much power though. A plain ol' Pentium (win95 box)
would do nicely. I run IPCop as a VM these days. I have my wireless
router (wrt54G stock) attached to the orange (dmz) network, so wireless
is isolated from my lan.
Stephen wrote:
> uptime etc... and the extra features is why im thinking about it.
> however my gateway does dyndns, but im still wnating to replace it
> with a real firewall and some of those features. but i dont have a
> graceful replacement of the wireless part of it yet. so im kind of
> stuck with it. (and i dont mind replacing it with tomato/DDwrt but i
> want a backup plan first in case i brick it)
>
> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Eric Shubert <ejs@shubes.net> wrote:
>> It seems to me that the gateway is a more logical place to put dhcp,
>> thinking of your gateway as a "network server" (which provides network
>> services).
>>
>> To be honest though, I can't think of a reason why it would really
>> matter one way or another.
>>
>> Stephen wrote:
>>> This is actually something i have been planning for a few weeks now...
>>>
>>> More incentive to set this up, but it will likely go on its on VM on
>>> my server than locally.
>>>
>>> Im not sure if i want to use DHCP on my server or DHCP on myGateway yet.
>>>
>>> On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Eric Shubert <ejs@shubes.net> wrote:
>>>> Running your own caching resolver is pretty trivial on RHEL/Fedora. Just
>>>> need to install the caching-nameserver package (which pulls in deps when
>>>> you use yum to install it). You then need to have:
>>>> nameserver 127.0.0.1
>>>> first in your /etc/resolv.conf file so it gets used. If your computer is
>>>> directly attached to the cox modem, that'll be a pain as dhcp resets
>>>> your resolv.conf file. If you're using cox, you really should have a
>>>> router with nat between your computer and the cox modem though, so your
>>>> computer isn't sitting on a public address.
>>>>
>>>> I don't know off hand how to set up a local resolver on Ubuntu. I don't
>>>> really need one myself because my IPCop is my resolver. ;)
>>>>
>>>> Brian Cluff wrote:
>>>>> I've always found that cox's DNS server have been less that desirable.
>>>>> I was actually surprised to find that I was using their dns at all.
>>>>> I've usually setup my own, to get around their DNS problems.
>>>>>
>>>>> Now with cox hijacking all the typos, I would recommend more than ever
>>>>> that people setup their own DNS servers.
>>>>>
>>>>> Brian Cluff
>>>>>
>>>>> On 02/28/2010 07:53 AM, Steven A. DuChene wrote:
>>>>>> Yes, I am using cox but I guess the bigger question is WHY
>>>>>> is cox reporting an incorrect IP for the plug web server?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>>> From: Brian Cluff<brian@snaptek.com>
>>>>>>> Sent: Feb 28, 2010 1:56 AM
>>>>>>> To: Main PLUG discussion list<plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
>>>>>>> Subject: Re: Installfest this Saturday - PLUG website dead?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It looks like the cox name server at 68.105.29.12 is reporting back the
>>>>>>> wrong address for the plug server. If you simply remove that nameserver
>>>>>> >from your resolv.conf, you should be able to get to the server again.
>>>>>>> Brian Cluff
>>>>>>>
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