Running as a vm, what platform do you run it on? (virtualbox, xen, vmware)
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Eric Shubert <
ejs@shubes.net> wrote:
> 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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