Re[2]: Linux Help

now i'm going with Debian

if i install minum installation of debian and i can install other things by downloading them (Sendmail, Squid etc) ?



On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 21:59:02 -0500
Skylar Thompson <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 10:50:07PM +0600, Kev wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm new to Linux, so i'm paling to install a gateway, with the following,
> > 
> > 1. Firewall
> 
> On Linux, your choices are pretty limited: ipchains or iptables. On a new
> installation, I can see of no reason not to go with iptables.
> 
> > 2. DNS
> 
> Without more information, I'd say BIND 9 (http://www.isc.org/sw/bind/).
> It's stable, secure, and full of nice features.
> 
> > 3. DHCP
> 
> Again, without more information, the obvious choice is ISC-DHCP 3
> (http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/).
> 
> > 4. SMTP (relay only)
> 
> Here you've got lots of options. I personally maintain Sendmail
> (http://www.sendmail.org) on a variety of platforms (OS/2, Red Hat Linux,
> Debian GNU/Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, and NetBSD) and find it to be full of
> features, but a real PITA when it comes to debugging. Since all you want to
> do is relay, and for reasons I'll explain in the next point, I'm going to
> recommend Exim (http://www.exim.org).
> 
> > 5. Email Virus Scaning
> 
> If all you are doing is virus scanning, I'd suggest using ClamAV
> (http://www.clamav.net). To avoid needing to use a milter (I can't recall
> whether Exim supports milters), I'd highly recommend MailScanner
> (http://wwww.mailscanner.info). It uses a two-queue solution that obviates
> the need for milters, and in my experience increases mail throughput by as
> much as 10x compared to milters. It can be easily setup to call a spam
> filter such as SpamAssassin (http://www.spamassassin.org) and a virus
> scanner such as ClamAV (http://www.clamav.net).
> 
> > 6. Gray Listing (email)
> 
> SpamAssassin or MailScanner can do this.
> 
> > 7. NAT
> 
> This is done with iptables.
> 
> > 8 Web Cashing
> 
> Squid (http://www.squid-cache.org) is the best one I've used. I use it on a
> NetBSD box in front of a cable connection to do transparent proxying, and
> it works marvelously.
> 
> > 9. Web Based Configuration tool for all above.
> 
> Definitely Webmin (http://www.webmin.com).
>  
> > can any one tell me the best Linux version to use, (RedHat, Debian, etc)
> > and the software i can use, like DNS = BIND, some thing simple to use...
>  
> 
> While I've been a devout Red Hat user for years, I've been shying away from
> Red Hat on new installs because they've been moving away from personal
> users and concentrating almost exclusively on the commercial customers.
> Fedora isn't (and wasn't intended to be) as well-polished as Red Hat 9, so
> I'd go with Debian. It has a large user and developer base, so it's not
> going south any time soon.
> 
> > the Box will be a P2 with 256MB ram but if i can get it to work on a P1
> > 166Mhz that would be great....
> 
> Especially for mail filtering, you're going to want as much CPU power and
> RAM as you can throw at it. Go SMP if you can. You might even want to run
> that P1 for DHCP, DNS routing if you can, so that those services don't get
> slowed down significantly if you suddenly get a huge spike in mail traffic.
> Web caching benefits from having as much RAM and hard drive space as
> possible, but CPU power isn't as much of a concern for it.
> 
> -- 
> -- Skylar Thompson ([email protected])
> -- http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/

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