Re: Which distro is best for me?
From: Jay \ (boogie350_at_NOSPAMyahoo.com)
Date: 09/21/03
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Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 19:50:26 -0000
Davorin Vlahovic <A-Burn@fly.srk.fer.hr> wrote in
news:slrnbmqt3t.4su.A-Burn@afrodita.home.lan:
> In article <Xns93FCBAB18CCDCboogie350NOSPAMyahoo@216.168.3.44>,
> Jay "Boogieman" Edwards wrote:
>> Davorin Vlahovic <A-Burn@fly.srk.fer.hr> wrote in
>> news:slrnbmpg9a.2dp.A-Burn@afrodita.home.lan:
>>
>>> In article <Xns93FC9A9276D5Bboogie350NOSPAMyahoo@216.168.3.44>,
>>> Jay "Boogieman" Edwards wrote:
>>>> Hello all...
>>>
>>> Hello ;)
>>
>> 'SUP?
>
> ;)
>
>>> To the outside, open only SMTP, and redirect inbound traffic for the
>>> game server just to ports required, and close everything else (of
>>> course, use ESTABLISHED and RELATED states in netfilter). Of course,
>>> you'll be using masquerading. This will keep you safe from worms.
>>
>> Which brings up a question. Can the NAT/masq traffic go through the
>> router to the PC's correctly? This machine would be connecting to the
>> NAT router...
>
> Well, you cat reroute the inbound traffic from the net to the gateway
> to some machine in the LAN...like this:
>
> iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 ! -s 192.168.0.0/24 --dport 80
> -j DNAT \
> --to 192.168.0.10:80
>
> This reroutes all the traffic that comes in through eth0 and is not
> sent from your LAN (it's not from 192.168.0.0/24) that connects to
> port 80 on your gateway/router to the machine on your lan with address
> 192.168.0.10 to port 80.
>
> Of course, the gateway/router should have 2 NICs, and the eth0 is the
> one connected to the Internet.
Right... eth0 to the cable modem, eth1 to the WAN port on the router...
>>> To set up such a system, you have to learn how to adminster Linux.
>>
>> Ya don't say...
>
> Well, the main thing is that you either want to learn, or to protect
> your LAN ;)
Well, I had to *learn* to administer MS-DOS and ten other versions of
windows, OS/2... it kinda goes without saying I'd have to learn to
administer Linux too, if I'm gonna run it.
>>> The first thing you'll have to learn is how to use a text editor and
>>> know the following files (you're a newbie, use jed, but I prefer
>>> vim):
>>
>> Umm... *nothing* and I do mean NOTHING can be as bad or hard to use
>> as MS EDLIN!!!! How hideous!!!
>
> Ever tried using sed? :)
No, but I'll keep it in mind as something I probably won't want! :-)
>> My old DOS favorite was QEdit... Nice little program... still have it
>> too...
>
> I believe you can find it for Linux, too ;)
>
>> As for man pages, they're great, although
>> sometimes overwhelming. There's always Google, which is priceless for
>> finding a wealth of information and help.
>
> Sure.
>
>>
>>> For iptables (this is user-space utility to manage netfilter system
>>> in the Linux kernel), you'll have to write your own script, so I'll
>>> advise you to learn how to write your own shell scripts.
>>
>> Hahaha! I'm certain that iptables *could* have been described in
>> somewhat less, shall we say, "SYSADMIN" terminology. Like, "iptables
>> defines your firewall/NAT functionality" would have sufficed.
>
> O.k. iptables sets stuff needed to firewall the 'puter. Satisfied? ;)
Yeah... I'm better now...
>>> To check for open ports, use nmap (www.insecure.org), and to check
>>> the net from outside, go to http://www.grc.com and find the shields
>>> up or something like it to see if and which of your ports are
>>> open...
>>
>> Yup... used both on Win32 before...
>>
>
> Great.
>
>>> Of course, read sites that scream "HOLE FOUND!" ;))
>>
>> In windows it's safer to just assume that the "back wall" has
>> collapsed!
>>
>
> ;)
>
>>> Don't install XFree86, you don't need it. The less systems you've
>>> got up, the less is the chance something's gonna get wrong.
>>
>> On the server, I agree. But I also want to set up Linux on my other
>> boxes, which would be used for a variety of things which would pretty
>> much require an XFree86 server be initialized to run. Although *I*
>> personally don't mind working in a text-only environment, everyone
>> else around here would shout till the roof comes down if they didn't
>> at least have a GUI.
>
> I was talking only about the server ;)
Okay... good. That can be all console as far as I'm concerned. Hmmm... Do
you think Linux could pull off being a combo fileserver, gateway/firewall
and dedicated Q3 server simultaneously on a K6-3 400 w/512 PC100? I
*know* windows would choke on that...
>> Booting lite goes without saying. I don't like a lot of services and
>> unwanted BG programs running. Actually, in my case it would be
>> "192.168.2. : ALL:"
>>
>
> Whatever ;)
Just because that's the range my router has set up internally.
Anyways, last night, I played a few rounds of Q3 before bedtime and all
was fine. I came in here this morning and all was fine... made a store
run and w2k decided I didn't need my sound card installed anymore. I did
nothing, nor was anyone else even here, during the 1/2 hour I was gone,
so evidently windows just decided it was gonna screw up stuff for no
apparent reason. There was no power outage indicated on the voltage
monitor I have connected to the line (it stores any kind of power event
such as low/high voltage, outage, etc. - the LED would have been flashing
amber if there had been an alarm state). Checking it's memory showed
nothing out of range or anything. So, what gives?
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