Hi list,
A friend of mine is a network admin. Recently, I had a talk with him and convinced him to use GNU/Linux to control the internet access to all the client PCs in his organization. His requirements are pretty simple and can be satisfied by using Squid. But the problem is that his knowledge of GNU/Linux is nill, zero!
Now I would really like to know if there is some distro that can meet his requirements ( Proxy, NAT, DNS Cache, Firewall easy to setup and web based administration of the server ). You know something that would need him to only pop in the CD on a fresh machine - install automatically without creating too much fuss about partitioning scheme, the packages that he wants etc.. etc.. and would give him a simple web based interface ( something like we have on cheap routers or similar to webmin ).
All suggestions are welcome.
Sometime on Sunday 14 January 2007 23:51, Dinesh Joshi said:
Hi list,
A friend of mine is a network admin. Recently, I had a talk with him and convinced him to use GNU/Linux to control the internet access to all the client PCs in his organization. His requirements are pretty simple and can be satisfied by using Squid. But the problem is that his knowledge of GNU/Linux is nill, zero!
I guess, Ebox-Platform should satisfy the needs. Havent tried it yet, but i plan to do a test installation soon.
http://ebox-platform.com/index
Now I would really like to know if there is some distro that can meet his requirements ( Proxy, NAT, DNS Cache, Firewall easy to setup and web based administration of the server ). You know something that would need him to only pop in the CD on a fresh machine - install automatically without creating too much fuss about partitioning scheme, the packages that he wants etc.. etc.. and would give him a simple web based interface ( something like we have on cheap routers or similar to webmin ).
http://ebox-platform.com/screenshots
Anurag
On Monday 15 January 2007 00:14, Anurag wrote:
I guess, Ebox-Platform should satisfy the needs. Havent tried it yet, but i plan to do a test installation soon.
Amazing info. Thanks. When and where will you be doing the test installation? Mind if I join you in testing it out? I am downloading it right now.
Bye...
A friend of mine is a network admin. Recently, I had a talk with him and convinced him to use GNU/Linux to control the internet access to all the client PCs in his organization. His requirements are pretty simple and can be satisfied by using Squid. But the problem is that his knowledge of GNU/Linux is nill, zero!
Now I would really like to know if there is some distro that can meet his requirements ( Proxy, NAT, DNS Cache, Firewall easy to setup and web based administration of the server ). You know something that would need him to only pop in the CD on a fresh machine - install automatically without creating too much fuss about partitioning scheme, the packages that he wants etc.. etc.. and would give him a simple web based interface ( something like we have on cheap routers or similar to webmin ).
The things you ask are pretty distribution neutral. Pretty much any disto could do it. Monowall, Shorewall and its cousins could meet you web based admined firewall needs. Someone once told me about PHP Squid Pass and DNS admin those could help you too.
Most of the common distro's out there have a system of fetching and installing packages(apt, yum etc.) and their dependencies to make life easy, just pick one. i would personally recommend Debian, if you want it easier go for Ubuntu. For the record i respect ALL distributions that respect freedom(written, just in case someone likes another disto better ;-))
Regards,
- vihan
On Monday 15 January 2007 00:19, Vihan Pandey wrote:
disto could do it. Monowall, Shorewall and its cousins could meet you web based admined firewall needs. Someone once told me about PHP Squid Pass and DNS admin those could help you too.
Thanks. I will check them out. At this point ebox looks promising enough and just what I needed!
On 14-Jan-07, at 11:51 PM, Dinesh Joshi wrote:
Now I would really like to know if there is some distro that can meet his requirements ( Proxy, NAT, DNS Cache, Firewall easy to setup and web based administration of the server ). You know something that would need him to only pop in the CD on a fresh machine - install automatically without creating too much fuss about partitioning scheme, the packages that he wants etc.. etc.. and would give him a simple web based interface
mandriva - i recomend it especially for old people and others who want the machine to 'just work'
Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On 14-Jan-07, at 11:51 PM, Dinesh Joshi wrote:
Now I would really like to know if there is some distro that can meet his requirements ( Proxy, NAT, DNS Cache, Firewall easy to setup and web based administration of the server ). You know something that would need him to only pop in the CD on a fresh machine - install automatically without creating too much fuss about partitioning scheme, the packages that he wants etc.. etc.. and would give him a simple web based interface
mandriva - i recomend it especially for old people and others who want the machine to 'just work'
wowster.. one answer to fit all 'which linux distro' questions. BTW, the site recommends Mandriva OR Fedora for me (a rpm/yum user).
http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/index.php?firsttime=true
- dhawal
On 1/15/07, Dhawal Doshy dhawal@netmagicsolutions.com wrote:
Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On 14-Jan-07, at 11:51 PM, Dinesh Joshi wrote:
Now I would really like to know if there is some distro that can meet his requirements ( Proxy, NAT, DNS Cache, Firewall easy to setup and web based administration of the server ). You know something that would need him to only pop in the CD on a fresh machine - install automatically without creating too much fuss about partitioning scheme, the packages that he wants etc.. etc.. and would give him a simple web based interface
mandriva - i recomend it especially for old people and others who want the machine to 'just work'
wowster.. one answer to fit all 'which linux distro' questions. BTW, the site recommends Mandriva OR Fedora for me (a rpm/yum user).
go for mandriva linux power pack edition it is one of the best & easiest to use than the free edition
On 16-Jan-07, at 10:49 AM, Dilip Khanolkar wrote:
go for mandriva linux power pack edition it is one of the best & easiest to use than the free edition
the thing people like about mandriva is that all the software is on the cds or dvd. No need to go on the net to install stuff. This means a lot for most people who just install all they need and forget about it. And if they need something more they just pop in the cd and its done. I know several people who have done their install around 2004 and are happily chugging away without any need to reinstall/update anything
go for mandriva linux power pack edition it is one of the best & easiest to use than the free edition
the thing people like about mandriva is that all the software is on the cds or dvd. No need to go on the net to install stuff. This means a lot for most people who just install all they need and forget about it. And if they need something more they just pop in the cd and its done. I know several people who have done their install around 2004 and are happily chugging away without any need to reinstall/update anything
yes thats true it is one of the best & stable i havent restarted my mandriva powerpack machine for about 2 months this is the average that it goes without restarting which the best in any linux i havent seen any other linux going above 1.5 months without having a restart except on the servers
yes thats true it is one of the best & stable i havent restarted my mandriva powerpack machine for about 2 months this is the average that it goes without restarting which the best in any linux i havent seen any other linux going above 1.5 months without having a restart except on the servers
i think there are a few Debian client boxes up at HBCSE TIFR which have broken that mark hands down :-)
Regards,
- vihan
On 16-Jan-07, at 11:20 AM, Dilip Khanolkar wrote:
yes thats true it is one of the best & stable i havent restarted my mandriva powerpack machine for about 2 months this is the average that it goes without restarting which the best in any linux i havent seen any other linux going above 1.5 months without having a restart except on the servers
i got over six months on my redhat 7.1 - and it only went off when some idiot plugged in an electric stove to the UPS
yes thats true it is one of the best & stable i havent restarted my mandriva powerpack machine for about 2 months this is the average that it goes without restarting which the best in any linux i havent seen any other linux going above 1.5 months without having a restart except on the servers
I have a gateway on redhat 7.3 going on for more than 6 months with a P1 - 200 MHz; 64MB RAM. -- height of stability. - Linux
Hozefa.
i got over six months on my redhat 7.1 - and it only went off when
some idiot plugged in an electric stove to the UPS
On Tuesday 16 January 2007 11:20, Dilip Khanolkar wrote:
yes thats true it is one of the best & stable i havent restarted my mandriva powerpack machine for about 2 months this is the average that it goes without restarting which the best in any linux i havent seen any other linux going above 1.5 months without having a restart
Fedora Core :)
Dinesh Joshi wrote:
On Tuesday 16 January 2007 11:20, Dilip Khanolkar wrote:
yes thats true it is one of the best & stable i havent restarted my mandriva powerpack machine for about 2 months this is the average that it goes without restarting which the best in any linux i havent seen any other linux going above 1.5 months without having a restart
Fedora Core :)
PEBKAC, bad hardware and possibly kernel upgrades is the only reason to reboot a unix server.. i have seen uptimes greater than a couple of years on some of my servers.. We had to take them down to be completely replaced with newer hardware.
One server i worked on at pair networks (in a previous life) had close to a 4 figure uptime (running freebsd).
- dhawal
yes thats true it is one of the best & stable i havent restarted my
mandriva powerpack machine for about 2 months this is the average that it goes without restarting which the best in any linux i havent seen any other linux going above 1.5 months without having a restart
Fedora Core :)
PEBKAC, bad hardware and possibly kernel upgrades is the only reason to reboot a unix server.. i have seen uptimes greater than a couple of years on some of my servers.. We had to take them down to be completely replaced with newer hardware.
One server i worked on at pair networks (in a previous life) had close to a 4 figure uptime (running freebsd).
thats true in my area of mumbai there are frequent voltage fluctuations due to lack of transformers even a ups doesnt help me much so my downtimes are mostly due to bad hardware but using mandriva linux i had a very less issues of bad hardware than using any other linux i do a very high r&d on machine as i am learning linux
On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:29:19 +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves lawgon@au-kbc.org wrote:
On 14-Jan-07, at 11:51 PM, Dinesh Joshi wrote:
Now I would really like to know if there is some distro ...Proxy, NAT, DNS Cache, Firewall easy to setup and web based administration of the server )....only pop in the CD on a fresh machine - install automatically without creating too much fuss about partitioning scheme,the packages that he wants etc.. etc.. web based interface
Try out deeproot.in/deepofix ..
. Completely _Free_ and Open Source Software. . Easy to setup.. . DOesnt ask for package selection etc.. very easy partitioning.. . Very easy to use Web adamin panel . Indian :-) ( I work for the company )
There will be a bug-fix release two days later.. I recommend you to download then. You can check out the demo here .. http://deeproot.in/deepofix/demo
We reinstall every few days (It is also our test machine) .. so if you find the demo machine down.. please retry in 25 minutes..
If you find a feature lacking, or have some other technical query, please use the forum on Sourceforge..
http://sourceforge.net/projects/deepofix
Or for any queries, you can contact us at start@deeproot.in
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