For the internal venue servers we now have running (2.1.2, and working on a 2.2 setup), I've been using RedHat 9. Whether I continue on this tack or move to something like Fedora or not, I haven't decided as yet.
The only issue that I can think of re: RedHat 9 is that you probably will have to acquire and load the openssl096 and openssl096b packages from your favourite RedHat mirror. Oh, yes - with 2.2 you will run into an issue with python-optik (bugzilla'd already) - but the way that I dealt with that is just to remove up2date (you'll have to get rid of a couple of other packages as well), since the RedHat Network no longer applies for this release. Once you've removed up2date and the RedHat version of python-optik, the install of 2.2 is clean. You will definitely need certificates - there is no way around that. I haven't attempted to configure our setup to only use our internal CA (though I believe that it is possible) - that's one of the items on my to do list. -randy On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Benedikt Bjarni Bogason wrote: > Hello everybody. > > I am in the process of looking into setting up an internal venue server > for my company (BT) behind our firewalls. I understand this has been done, > at least with one company (Boeing). For the time being we are only > thinking about connecting maybe 4-5 clients, mostly PIGs, but if > successful we might extend it further. Right now we are looking into the > possibility of one or two of our colleagues working from home using a > broadband connection (firewall problem not an issue). > > For this trial run we will be using as a server an old Linux box, and were > wondering if any of you had any suggestions which flavour of Linux we > should be using. Is there a particular version that works better for AG2.2 > than others? > > And also, will there be any severe certificate problems? As it will be > only used within the company, within our firewalls, we really have no > practical use for them; I don't suppose there is any way of just skipping > them? If not, would it be difficult to run our own certificate server? > > If anyone has any useful tips, or has gone through this process before us > and is willing to warn us of the pitfalls, I would be very grateful. > > Best regards, > Benedikt Bogason > benedikt.bogas...@bt.com > >
