Hi I have a net5501 with a 40G HD in it which I used as a home firewall, web server and mail server.
The mail server and web server each run in a bsd jail each with the base OS being freebsd. I went with freebsd because it seems well supported on soekris PCs and supports jails (the other BSDs seem to have given up), and because I really like PF. Also all my file server runs debian and I was sort of thinking that the chance of a well patched bsd system and a well patched debian system being vulnerable at the same time would be smaller. The problem is that the freebsd install isn't well patched because I just can't get along with the package management as well as debian apt. I used to get along with netbsd package management okay but that doesn't have jails. Now it has developed some other issues which I can't easily debug, and which I would have debugged easily in debian. Frankly it's just annoying me. So I have some choices. Forget freebsd and jails and go back to netbsd. Maybe outsource my web/mail and domain name to google like my boss does? My work netbsd firewall even has a cron script that checks its own patch state and emails me if it needs something. Stick with freebsd and rebuild and properly sort it (with associated learning curve that I never managed before)? Go to debian that I am 100% confortable with and use vservers (which would be new), just use fwbuilder on my desktop to get round iptables wierdness? Also I now have a 4G CF card that I would quite like to boot from (like my debian file server) so maybe the 40G drive could spend a lot of time asleep. Has anyone here tried vserver on a soekris? how does it compare with freebsd jail for resources? thanks for any thoughts, Philip _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
