Ubuntu Server Creation Help?

The desk in the corner | 02/08/09 | Tennessee_Bob

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Why drop a bottle neck into the system...all I see in their products is 10/100 ethernet connections...otherwise interesting stuff....prices indicate commercial grade .

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Interesting company...

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Soekris Engineering, Inc.
5400 Soquel Avenue, Suite E
Santa Cruz, CA 95062-7803
USA

Phone +1(831)464-5370, Fax +1(831)462-0946

[Knitebane]

Why drop a bottle neck into the system...all I see in their products is 10/100 ethernet connections...otherwise interesting stuff....prices indicate commercial grade .

What, you have a 200MB uplink to the Internet?

And Soekris prices are very reasonable when you consider the cost of actual commercial grade firewalls...

Nokia IP740: $5,998.25

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Ouch...that does make them look very reasonable....

Just found this:

Soekris Engineering is a small company
specializing in the design of embedded computer and communication devices.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

IBM is doing stuff with Ubuntu and Servers....will post some things...just saw this morning from summer of 2008....

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks for dropping that link here.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I was wondering what CARP was....

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Firewall Failover with pfsync and CARP

On most networks, the firewall is a single point of failure.

When the firewall goes down, inside users are unable to surf the web, the website goes dead to the outside world, and email grinds to a halt. Since version 3.5, OpenBSD has included a number of components which can be used to solve this problem, by placing two firewalls in parallel. All traffic passes through the primary firewall; when it fails the backup firewall assumes the identity of the primary firewall, and continues where it left off. Existing connections are preserved, and network traffic continues as if nothing had happened.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

CARP (the Common Address Redundancy Protocol)

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Just posted this:

IBM gets hip with 'cool' Ubuntu PC deal

[Knitebane]

CARP is the load balancing. Pfsync lets the firewalls share state tables. If a firewall goes down the other firewall already knows what network traffic was passing and lets it continue.

The newer OpenBSD builds also include pflog which lets you combine your firewall logs into a single stream for traffic analysis and IDS functions, ifstated which lets you do for internal servers what CARP does for firewalls, p0f which pulls OS and application fingerprints out of network traffic, spamd which is the single most effective spam eliminator I've ever seen and OpenBGP which is a fully documented replacement for Cisco's buggy BGP.

Can you tell I like OpenBSD? ;)

[dayglored]

> Allegedly? NTFS read/write in the Linux 2.6 kernel is exactly as guaranteed to work ast NTFS on Windows. Don't believe me? Read your [Microsoft] EULA: ...

Good point, ya got me there. ;-)

> Truthfully, NTFS write support on Ubuntu works just fine.

I wonder whether Fedora has it.... I run FC10 at home... hmmm. Might have set up a VM of Ubuntu just to try it out.

[Knitebane]

I wonder whether Fedora has it.... I run FC10 at home... hmmm. Might have set up a VM of Ubuntu just to try it out.

While I'm all for people trying out Ubuntu there's no need to install a whole OS to get ntfs-3g...

True NTFS Read/Write - Fedora Unity Project

[dayglored]

> ... there's no need to install a whole OS to get ntfs-3g... True NTFS Read/Write - Fedora Unity Project

Far out, thanks!

[papasmurf]

“there’s no need to install a whole OS to get ntfs-3g... “

Cheat, like I do. Use a “Live” CD. LOL

I swear, those Live CD’s have saved my bacon on more occasions than I can remember.

[Stegall Tx]

I use one of my boxes to run podracer to download podcasts and then serve them up (along with all my .mp3s) over to everyone else via twonky ($30). I also frequently run unison to make a local backup of the server and vice-versa.

[Stegall Tx]

Oh, one more thing (though this is currently running on a server all by itself). I've begun to experiment with PBX on a Flash to serve VoIP for my family.