[linux] Slackware updating, NAT/IPMasq specs, and NO-IPupdater/domainname setup on DHCP

[Garrett Cooper]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jonathan Nicol" <jnicol at cac.washington.edu>
To: "Linux/Unix Users Group at the UW" <linux at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 1:44 PM
Subject: Re: [linux] Slackware updating, NAT/IPMasq specs, and
NO-IPupdater/domainname setup on DHCP

> I'm currently running Gentoo on a P60 with 48MB RAM as a
> router/firewall. If you have other linux boxes on your LAN so you can
> use distcc for compiling, it works fine. If not, it'll be too much of a
> hassle on such a slow machine. I'm running Firehol (firehol.sf.net),
> which is a rule generator for iptables. Does everything, firewall, NAT,
> etc. I'm also running dhcpd, and dnsmasq as a caching dns server. I'm
> also running packet shaping using a semi-custom version of the
> Wondershaper script, let me know if you (or anyone) want to look at it.

That's certainly good news. The only thing is that you have 3x more ram
than I do, so I'd probably run out of memory/use swap space more than
you would with your setup. About the Firehol... that's awesome! It
does help simplify things so that I can go on and finish off over summer
projects, plus it would provide me with good examples so I don't have to
relearn Netfilter.

> Just a thought... Instead of installing a distro, have you considered
> using a bootable CD designed for routing, like Smoothwall
> (smoothwall.org)? I'm sure there's plenty others out there too...

I wish I could, but my ATAPI CDROM isn't bootable due to the BIOS not
having that feature =\. I was thinking of writing a LiveCD for that purpose
using
something like Gentoo as my distro, but it didn't seem like that was
workable
with that little BootCD issue.

-G

>
> On Sun, 2004-06-27 at 12:19, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> > Hello again all,
> >     I was going to setup a Cable/DSL router using Slackware 9.0 (just
> > because it would have taken eons to compile everything using Gentoo),
> > on my old P1 66 Mhz with 16 mb ram (any faster computers that any one
> > would be willing to donate would be much appreciated =)..). I was also
> > wondering if anyone had done something similar, and what services did
> > they have/had on their machines, since I was thinking of running dhcpd
> > (part of the time since I would setup the 2 other boxes on static
> > IPs), Bind 9 (just for basic hostname resolution of course), and maybe
> > a Samba Domain Controller-most likely not due to lack of resources-on
> > the box, and considering that a) I don't have a broadband connection
> > here at home, and b) I still have to purchase NICs for my box, I would
> > just like to know some of the specs and results of using similar
> > computers setups. I'm open to finding out results for any other distro
> > or BSD clone (Gentoo, Debian, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, etc).
> >     Second off, I was wondering if anyone knew of any semi-automatic
> > package updating or downloading tools for slackware. I know Fedora has
> > yum, and Gentoo has several emerge extension tools, but I was
> > wondering if there was one that automates part of pkgtool at all.
> >     And finally, I was wondering how I would go about automatically
> > setting the domainname for a setup with a No-IP updater, since I don't
> > have enough money to afford a yearly domainname subscription.
> >     Thanks again!
> > Garrett
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