Re: preparation for installation

Michael <[email protected]> Thu, 13 Jun 2002 09:29:13 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.os.openbsd.embedded
Organization Thirteen Technologies, LLC
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 14:30:39, clarence chan said...

> I will use the system as firewall with following functions:
>    - dynamic dns (ddclient)

I've never used ddclient, but I have my own set of scripts to interface dhcpd
with djbdns.  I don't run that on my emBSD box due to the amout of disk
writes.  

>    - web, dns, mail server re-direct.  (ie accept requests and   distribute
> them to the appropriated server machines).
 
This you can do with pf or ipf quite easily.  My emBSD box does this.

> Is embsd-2.0 suitable to handle the list jobs above.  For thhe ddclient, I
> can prepare it from other machine (OpenBSD-3.1-stable).
 
Yes.


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