Re: [CentOS] looking for alternative to SME Clark Connect
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:18:40 +0200 Rudi Ahlers rudiahl...@gmail.com wrote: Thanx guys, I see what I'm looking for doesn't really exist. SME does what I need, but still runs on CentOS 4.7, and it doesn't offer groupware email out of the box. What you are looking for doesn't exist in the a fully packaged form. But if you go to: http://howtoforge.com You will have the instructions for doing it yourself. Search for Zimbra for the groupware, samba... The bandwidth monitoring shouldn't be done on the server but on the router, always at the edge of the network. -- Thanks http://www.911networks.com When the network has to work ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] looking for alternative to SME Clark Connect
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 3:30 PM, cen...@911networks.com wrote: On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:18:40 +0200 Rudi Ahlers rudiahl...@gmail.com wrote: Thanx guys, I see what I'm looking for doesn't really exist. SME does what I need, but still runs on CentOS 4.7, and it doesn't offer groupware email out of the box. What you are looking for doesn't exist in the a fully packaged form. But if you go to: http://howtoforge.com You will have the instructions for doing it yourself. Search for Zimbra for the groupware, samba... The bandwidth monitoring shouldn't be done on the server but on the router, always at the edge of the network. -- SME Server 7.4 (http://www.contribs.org) does 90% of what I want, except for the bandwidth monitoring (per IP basis, aka. bandwidth accounting - which PFsense can do), and it acts as a router as well. ClarckConnect can also do this, but it's a commercial product for more than 10 mailboxes. Surely, someone, somewhere would know of something similar? -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] looking for alternative to SME Clark Connect
I'm looking for a (preferably free) alternative to SME / Clark Connect. I basically need the following: - firewall - nat - VPN - bandwidth limiting / monitoring - email (SMTP / POP3 / IMAP) groupware - file printer sharing - RAID support - if possible fail-over / high availability support. Here is a free mail server solution for RHEL/CentOS 5.x: http://code.google.com/p/iredmail/ -- Best regards. Zhang Huangbin - Open Source Mail Server Solution for RHEL/CentOS 5.x: http://code.google.com/p/iredmail/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] looking for alternative to SME Clark Connect
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 9:37 PM, Rudi Ahlers rudiahl...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm looking for a (preferably free) alternative to SME / Clark Connect. I basically need the following: - firewall - nat - VPN - bandwidth limiting / monitoring - email (SMTP / POP3 / IMAP) groupware - file printer sharing - RAID support - if possible fail-over / high availability support. I need to support about 15 - 30 (some part time) students, so I would like to keep the costs low. If it's free, so much better. SME works for most of the stuff, but it still runs on CentOS 4, and I'd prefer to use 5. clarkconnect 5 is on beta 2 http://distrowatch.com/5407 just wait a little while :) -- Muhammad Panji http://sumodirjo.wordpress.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] looking for alternative to SME Clark Connect
Hi all, I'm looking for a (preferably free) alternative to SME / Clark Connect. I basically need the following: - firewall - nat - VPN - bandwidth limiting / monitoring - email (SMTP / POP3 / IMAP) groupware - file printer sharing - RAID support - if possible fail-over / high availability support. I need to support about 15 - 30 (some part time) students, so I would like to keep the costs low. If it's free, so much better. SME works for most of the stuff, but it still runs on CentOS 4, and I'd prefer to use 5. Any recommendations? -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] looking for alternative to SME Clark Connect
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Rudi Ahlers rudiahl...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm looking for a (preferably free) alternative to SME / Clark Connect. I basically need the following: - firewall - nat - VPN - bandwidth limiting / monitoring - email (SMTP / POP3 / IMAP) groupware - file printer sharing - RAID support - if possible fail-over / high availability support. I need to support about 15 - 30 (some part time) students, so I would like to keep the costs low. If it's free, so much better. SME works for most of the stuff, but it still runs on CentOS 4, and I'd prefer to use 5. Any recommendations? -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Pfsense(FreeBSD based) can be an alternative, although it doesn't support email/groupware out of the box...but it doesn't mean that it can't be done. http://www.pfsense.org I've been running it on a Dell Optiplex PIII for almost 2 years without any issue using NAT, Port Fowarding, Dual WAN(Cable and ADSL), Captive portal, DNS Server, Snort, etc. hope it helps. -- It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion. Todo el desorden del mundo proviene de las profesiones mal o mediocremente servidas ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] looking for alternative to SME Clark Connect
Rudi Ahlers schrieb: Hi all, I'm looking for a (preferably free) alternative to SME / Clark Connect. I basically need the following: - firewall - nat - VPN - bandwidth limiting / monitoring I'd split these functions to a separate device, using pfSense on embedded hardware (ALIX or comparable). They have no point on a server. pfSense does this on 200 $-size hardware with 5 Watt energy consumption. - email (SMTP / POP3 / IMAP) groupware - file printer sharing - RAID support I don't think there's a free version for everything ;-) Zimbra is OK, but the commercial edition costs - same with OX and most other stuff. Given the complexity of the stuff involved, I'd say anything like this needs a commercial backer. Unless you only use mail. - if possible fail-over / high availability support. For free? ;-) I need to support about 15 - 30 (some part time) students, so I would like to keep the costs low. If it's free, so much better. SME works for most of the stuff, but it still runs on CentOS 4, and I'd prefer to use 5. I have a sense of deja-vu. Didn't we have all these questions and specs a couple of weeks ago? Rainer ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] looking for alternative to SME Clark Connect
Rudi Ahlers wrote: Hi all, I'm looking for a (preferably free) alternative to SME / Clark Connect. I basically need the following: - firewall - nat - VPN - bandwidth limiting / monitoring - email (SMTP / POP3 / IMAP) groupware - file printer sharing - RAID support - if possible fail-over / high availability support. I need to support about 15 - 30 (some part time) students, so I would like to keep the costs low. If it's free, so much better. SME works for most of the stuff, but it still runs on CentOS 4, and I'd prefer to use 5. What's the problem with clarkconnect? It's not particularly difficult to set these functions up yourself starting with a stock Centos if you intend to maintain them yourself (SME's main attraction is that the configuration interface is easy enough for anyone to use). With other appliance-type distributions you might find it easier to split the firewall and application services onto different boxes. ipcop and ebox look somewhat promising. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] looking for alternative to SME Clark Connect
Rainer Duffner wrote: - if possible fail-over / high availability support. For free? ;-) I need to support about 15 - 30 (some part time) students, so I would like to keep the costs low. If it's free, so much better. SME works for most of the stuff, but it still runs on CentOS 4, and I'd prefer to use 5. I have a sense of deja-vu. Didn't we have all these questions and specs a couple of weeks ago? That was more about something that scaled up. For 15 people I'd probably run SME server in a VMware guest on a machine doing something else. And handle the high availablity by having the host use RAID1 on swappable disks that could be moved to a spare chassis. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] looking for alternative to SME Clark Connect
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.comwrote: Rainer Duffner wrote: - if possible fail-over / high availability support. For free? ;-) I need to support about 15 - 30 (some part time) students, so I would like to keep the costs low. If it's free, so much better. SME works for most of the stuff, but it still runs on CentOS 4, and I'd prefer to use 5. I have a sense of deja-vu. Didn't we have all these questions and specs a couple of weeks ago? That was more about something that scaled up. For 15 people I'd probably run SME server in a VMware guest on a machine doing something else. And handle the high availablity by having the host use RAID1 on swappable disks that could be moved to a spare chassis. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Pfsense supports CARP which can be used for failover. FreeNAS/Openfiler(CentOS) can be used for file sharing and it supports RAID also. and you can use KVM on CentOS to run all of them(VMs) including a VM which can use Zimbra or any other groupware software you want. -- It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion. Todo el desorden del mundo proviene de las profesiones mal o mediocremente servidas ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] looking for alternative to SME Clark Connect
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Victor Padro vpa...@gmail.com wrote: FreeNAS/Openfiler(CentOS) can be used for file sharing and it supports RAID also. Openfiler uses rPath Linux http://www.openfiler.com/community They have not used CentOS for some time I think. AsteriskNOW recently switched from using rPath to CentOS when they released version 1.5. Paul ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
