Installing a new server
On monday I was in Varna to install a new server. The old one is a
P3 450 Mhz 320 MB of RAM since the developers work on the samba the
machine is heavy loaded and the collegues's work is being often
interrupted waiting for files to save on the machine etc. The new
server is a 2 CPU Xeon (3.2 Ghz), pretty neat box. It took me 2
days to configure the machine because I experienced problems with
the Hardware (Motherboard included VIA RAID 6410). I prayed God to
bless me be able to make the machine and ofcourse it happened.
Since Wednesday the new server works smoothly. It's running SAMBA,
Apache, MySQL and some routine backupping scripts etc. Actually I
ended installing a software RAID, VIA seems to have support only
for 2.4.x kernels. I was thinking about installing FreeBSD but
eventually I ended with Debian 4.0. Today I had to configure some
Squid ACLs because the boss wanted to filter some job recruitment
sites for the users in the office. Also I installed the ipp2p
kernel module on the Internet Gateway to drop all torrent based
traffic. I had to make one redirect from 10.10.10.1:80 ->
10.10.10.2:80 I thought about the classical way to redirect port
but it didn't worked after some investigation and help from the
people on irc.freenode.net #iptables I figured out If you have to
redirect ports on the same subnet then you have to have also one
more SNAT rule