At 09:50 PM 9/3/02 +0200, Joris Kempen wrote:
>Hi people,
>
>been away from this list for a while.
>
>But finally have it done. Got myself a new decent working server. Pentium 75
>with 40 mb.
>
>Got a Dachstein disk version with EchoWall & SSH installed. So I can access
>my server just
>from my good old laptop.
>
>Question: and what can I do more with this setup??? Any nice ideas?

It's a router. Routers route. If you want or need to route something you 
are unable to route, tell us about it and we may be able to help. (The 
usual candidates for "something" are picky services that need particular 
ports or range of ports forwarded to NAT'd hosts.)

Dachstein can be used to do other things, but doing them on a 
router/firewall generally isn't a good idea. Usually, you want your router 
just to do routing sorts of things ... routing itself, NAT'ing, other 
firewalling, port-forwarding particular services, and possibly a couple of 
other things that are customarily associated with home and small business 
routers (e.g., DNS forwarding, DHCP address assignment to the LAN). 
Dachstein does this small set of stuff prety much out of the box.


>Well I have some small questions already:
>
>- I use MSN Messenger, and with program you can send/receive files from
>other people.
>With my current LRP setup, I'm only able to receive files. Can't send any.
>Anyone know where to set this open on my LRP box?
>Do I need to do some configuration? And where to change things, on the
>Dachstein setup, or in EchoWall?

LEAF, not LRP. I don't know this service, but forwarding of specific 
services is usually accomplished via the kernel's firewalling code. In your 
case, this gets set up with EchoWall. If it doesn't include a preconfigured 
choice for "MSN Messenger", you'll need to add one.

>- how does Echowall work exactly on top of Dachstein???

The leaf-user list is not the place to get general tutorials; it is a place 
to ask specific, focused questions. For general overviews, please read the 
EchoWall docs.

>- Is it possible to have IIS webserver running behind my LRP box (on a local
>pc with let's say ip 192.168.1.3) and make it communicate with the outside?
>My outside ip is something like 212.68.38.23
>and when i go with a browser to this IP on port 80, I want to access the IIS
>website on local pc 192.168.1.3

 From the outside, you will need to access it as http://212.68.38.23 (or 
some FQN that resolves to that IP address). Except for that part, yes, you 
can do what you describe; it is a very standard port-forwarding task.

>I assume I need to forward my incoming request on port 80 on my router, to
>forward them to my local PC with IIS.
>
>- I want to do the same for FTP, incoming traffic at port 21 or something to
>forward to an internal ftp server.

OK. EchoWall has both of these services (and many others) as built-in 
options. You just need to identify the hosts involved in the EchoWall setup 
file.

>- is there a way how to see what's all happening at my server? I know there
>is the monitor on 192.168.1.254 but still I have no idea what's going on at
>all.

"see what's all happening" is a bit unfocused. There are many tools you can 
use to monitor specific things, but you need to have some idea what it is 
that you want to monitor. I'm not even sure from what you wrote whether you 
want to monitor your server's behavior remotely or have your server monitor 
the router.

>- I have a 1,6 GB HD laying around. Any nice things I can do with that on my
>router?

Routing is a minimalist sort of thing; generally, routers don't benefit 
from having enormous filesystems on them (it could even be a slight 
weakness, as it is one more unneeded thing that someone trying to break 
into your system might exploit).

You might consider whether your setup would benefit from running a proxy 
server, like Squid or Junkbuster, on the router, rather than having it 
directly NAT outgoing connections to http and ftp servers. If so, the disk 
space would provide room for caching.

>Lot's of questions, hope some one can answer some of them.
[...]


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