As the available tools for Linux Hams increases, so does the
complexity of the
system..........!
I am running several Linux pc's for a variety of services, some ax.25
and some supporting
our lan (firewall, etc.). I need to consolidate two of the servers and
am running into some configuration issues.
1) sendmail is tough to configure!! I need in/out tcp mail to the
net/lan AND very much desire
ampr.org and pbbs smtp mail in and out. I've looked and zmail (I
think!) and mailgw and am not impressed
with the documentation. In other words, it seems like the others have
their issues and configuration difficulties just like sendmail.
Has anyone a similar situation and can share some tips or
cinfiguration files/scripts/etc? Is there another
solution out there for the "small network"? We run 6 workstations and
don't need something grossly overdone.
2) Along the same lines, my old firewall worked just fine with 2.0.3x
kernels. With the change, some new hardware and new libs, etc I'm
running 2.2.x (ipchains, etc). The AX.25 HOW-TO is fairly out-of-date
and lacking some details in discussing firewalls, ip forwarding and
"bridging" amprnet radio stuff to/from ethernet/internet. Is anyone
doing similar work, ie: many services on one box? Routing is a bear
sometimes and unfortunately, my dns has an illegal entry for
44.26.1.0/24 and my addresses are 44.26.1.x!! (Actually, 44.26.1.0
shows up in the amprnet listing at tapr.org!!!) Is there a solution
for ampr name lookups like the old ka9q domain.txt file?
3) We have a few Windows workstations and I use QVTNet 4.0 (ansi
terminal emulator) to telnet
over to the various Linux pc's. the vt220 terminfo is lacking in the
keymapping department. Has anyone any experience in building a
terminfo entry or can suggest one that allows such keys as BS AND DEL,
PageUP/DN, F9-12, etc?
I'm a diehard SuSE fan, running 6.3b2 right now (waiting for the
release version to come in the mail
so I can review it for the Eugene Linux User's Group!). The primary
ham server is running two netrom nodes, CLX, apache, ftp, telnet and
shell. Eventually I'll add FBB or DPBOX to the mix. The net server
also runs apache, ftp, telnet etc. I need to combine the two, get
sendmail working for ampr addresses and
resolve my ethernet<>amprnet routing issues.
Any hints, help and suggestions (besides reading OLD man pages and
HOW-TO's :+) greatly appreciated. Beer/and/or pizza certificates
could be arranged if I get this done this week!
Thanks in advance.
kg7fu
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James S. Kaplan KG7FU
Eugene Oregon USA
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http://www.rio.com/~kg7fu
ICQ # 1227639
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