From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kev Subject: Re[2]: Linux Help Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 09:27:04 +0600 Sender: linux-config-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040720092512.18BC.SAVAGE-GARDEN@hanikamail.com> References: <20040719224934.4820.SAVAGE-GARDEN@hanikamail.com> <20040720025902.GA93963@quark.cs.earlham.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20040720025902.GA93963@quark.cs.earlham.edu> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Skylar Thompson Cc: linux-config@vger.kernel.org now i'm going with Debian if i install minum installation of debian and i can install other things by downloading them (Sendmail, Squid etc) ? On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 21:59:02 -0500 Skylar Thompson wrote: > On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 10:50:07PM +0600, Kev wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm new to Linux, so i'm paling to install a gateway, with the following, > > > > 1. Firewall > > On Linux, your choices are pretty limited: ipchains or iptables. On a new > installation, I can see of no reason not to go with iptables. > > > 2. DNS > > Without more information, I'd say BIND 9 (http://www.isc.org/sw/bind/). > It's stable, secure, and full of nice features. > > > 3. DHCP > > Again, without more information, the obvious choice is ISC-DHCP 3 > (http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/). > > > 4. SMTP (relay only) > > Here you've got lots of options. I personally maintain Sendmail > (http://www.sendmail.org) on a variety of platforms (OS/2, Red Hat Linux, > Debian GNU/Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, and NetBSD) and find it to be full of > features, but a real PITA when it comes to debugging. Since all you want to > do is relay, and for reasons I'll explain in the next point, I'm going to > recommend Exim (http://www.exim.org). > > > 5. Email Virus Scaning > > If all you are doing is virus scanning, I'd suggest using ClamAV > (http://www.clamav.net). To avoid needing to use a milter (I can't recall > whether Exim supports milters), I'd highly recommend MailScanner > (http://wwww.mailscanner.info). It uses a two-queue solution that obviates > the need for milters, and in my experience increases mail throughput by as > much as 10x compared to milters. It can be easily setup to call a spam > filter such as SpamAssassin (http://www.spamassassin.org) and a virus > scanner such as ClamAV (http://www.clamav.net). > > > 6. Gray Listing (email) > > SpamAssassin or MailScanner can do this. > > > 7. NAT > > This is done with iptables. > > > 8 Web Cashing > > Squid (http://www.squid-cache.org) is the best one I've used. I use it on a > NetBSD box in front of a cable connection to do transparent proxying, and > it works marvelously. > > > 9. Web Based Configuration tool for all above. > > Definitely Webmin (http://www.webmin.com). > > > can any one tell me the best Linux version to use, (RedHat, Debian, etc) > > and the software i can use, like DNS = BIND, some thing simple to use... > > > While I've been a devout Red Hat user for years, I've been shying away from > Red Hat on new installs because they've been moving away from personal > users and concentrating almost exclusively on the commercial customers. > Fedora isn't (and wasn't intended to be) as well-polished as Red Hat 9, so > I'd go with Debian. It has a large user and developer base, so it's not > going south any time soon. > > > the Box will be a P2 with 256MB ram but if i can get it to work on a P1 > > 166Mhz that would be great.... > > Especially for mail filtering, you're going to want as much CPU power and > RAM as you can throw at it. Go SMP if you can. You might even want to run > that P1 for DHCP, DNS routing if you can, so that those services don't get > slowed down significantly if you suddenly get a huge spike in mail traffic. > Web caching benefits from having as much RAM and hard drive space as > possible, but CPU power isn't as much of a concern for it. > > -- > -- Skylar Thompson (skylar@cs.earlham.edu) > -- http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/ ------- Web Hosting at cheep price, stating at $1 per moth with your own domain, .COM, .NET, .LK, .ORG etc.. PHP, CGI, Perl, MySQL, Cpanel 9, POP3, POP3s, SMTP, IMAP, FTP, http://www.orbitsl.net