Full Gentoo server.

HydroSan · Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2004 5:26 am Post subject: Full Gentoo server.

This may be a long post, and it may be a repost, but I really need some help, even after searching around.

What this box (a P-II 400MHz with 512MB of PC-133 RAM and a 40GB Hard Drive) needs to do is the following:

1. Be able to run a DHCP server for the network.
2. Be able to run a SAMBA server for the network.
3. Be able to have IP Masq.'ing going for the network like ICS in WindowsXP, with the same kind of flexibility.
4. Be able to basically be a downloading and file hosting server for BitTorrent and aMule. (My precious, precious BeatMania IIDX videos...)
5. Have a firewall setup for a good enough security solution.

I also plan on having some sort of MUD hosted for a friend in the near future.

I've read up on IPTABLES, but it just doesn't have the flexibility that, say, Norton Personal Firewall has.

So to sum up, what I NEED knowledge on is: A good DHCP server, IP Masq'ing, and some sort of Firewall that's nice and graphical. I don't have much time to learn completely new software at the command-prompt level, but would be willing to if required. I've already got a good bane on Samba (from the Gentoo documentation and other sources).

I mostly want to get ALL my boxes off of Windows. I've only got one box left, and thats my server. And the only thing thats keeping that is the nice ICS and Norton Firewall setup I've gotten used to.

Any help, either links to older topics, CLEAR and GOOD documentation (not a novel), or opinions on software. Please answer to ANYTHING, even if it's just a small nudge in the right direction.

Thank you.
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dsd · Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2004 7:56 am Post subject: Re: Full Gentoo server.

ajtidball · n00b Joined: 30 May 2004 Posts: 7

I recommend installing (emerging) Webmin. It will provide you with a web-based configuration GUI for samba, DHCP, iptables, (shorewall too). This takes the pain out of learning command line stuff (even though most Gentoo heads swear by it)

Shorewall is a decent firewall, it's fairly easy to setup (with Webmin, or command line).

HydroSan · Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2004 2:11 pm Post subject:

I've heard about Webmin before. I'll try that out, thanks.
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n3mo · Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2004 4:23 pm Post subject:

In my firm we got some PII 400 with 128MB of ram and 30GB HD which provide all the things you mentioned, except amule, bittorrent ecc., plus caching nameserver, squid and freeswan, with no problems at all.

I used shorewall for the configuration of iptables and I think it's a quite good choise, there's a lot of docs in their site, about the security i think you like to start with gentoo-security.xml.

the_sphynx · Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2004 3:11 am Post subject:

I don't know if anyone has fully answered your questions so here it goes: