7/13    I'm thinking about getting a Soekris 4501 to replace my the P2-400
        that is currently acting as my home firewall. Has anyone used a
        Soekris system for this purpose? If so, how well does it work? Also,
        if there are any alternatives (similar power/form factor), I would
        appreciate links to those as well. tia.
        \_ John got me to use a WRAP box similar to Soekris.  I use this one:
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10/19   I installed openVPN here at work as our VPN solution for now but
        the Mac's have real issues with DNS. They basically don't pick up
        the internal DNS server after connecting. Anyone know the solution
        to that one or know of a better VPN solution for macs?
        \_ Does it have to be SSL-based?  Is commercial an option?  Do you
           need HA?  Is this for roving clients or working at home?  How
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3/14    I'm looking for a good tutorial/howto for setting up IPSEC
        on my *BSD router/firewall. Basically I want to be able to
        access my home network while I'm on the road (iBook w/ OSX
        10.4), and I don't want to set up a bunch of SSH port forwards
        to talk to various services. Any pointers?
3/14
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3/2     Has anyone seen this?  Should make a good firewall appliance.
        http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3880195342.html
        \_ With only one nic?  I suppose you could use the USB..
           Wonder how M0n0wall would do on this..
           \_ I could ask Manuel (the guy who put M0n0wall together) if you're
              interested--we have him on retainer on one of my projects. -John
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2/15    I'm trying to get someone setup on iChatAV but it appears that their
        ISP is blocking port 5060 (the SIP port) in order to promote their
        own VoIP products. Does anyone know of any clever ways to circumvent
        this (like port forwarding, proxy, etc.)?
        \_ Yeah--get a decent firewall (I'm going to keep on mentioning
           M0n0wall on WRAP) that does port NAT.  That, or IPSEC, although
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1/21    I am trying to setup a small network for my girlfriend's
        mom's company.  They just bought an accounting package
        which requires windows 2003 server.  And they want internet
        access from each computer.  How should the network be setuped?
        Would it be dumb to use static IP for each computer and a
        computer as internet gateway?
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1/2     Which Windows anti-virus software do you trust/recommend?
        \_ Linux
        \_ I think the general consensus is that Kaspersky is the best AV
           program you can buy.  Among the free AV programs, Avast! is well
           regarded, followed by AntiVir.  ClamAV seems pretty good if you
           want to go open-source. --jameslin
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10/9    Dear MOTD, I'm looking to give a bunch of windows users access to a
        filesharing solution on a unix box.  They're not terribly technical,
        and have mainly browser access.  Is there some sort of open source
        web based toy running over SSL that mimicks what they would see on a
        windows fileshare, with drag&drop/copy&paste?  -John
        \_ WebDAV on Apache might work for you. I think that recent
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9/27    Are there routers out there that do bandwidth limiting or
        protocol priority? I run a LAN in my house but my roomates
        seem to hog up connections making my SSH connection intolerable.
        \_ http://www.m0n0.ch/wall + http://www.pcengines.ch  -John
        \_ Think the term you are looking for is traffic shaping
        \_ Some manufacturers sell a "gaming router" which traffic shapes on
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6/2     I've been to many places and almost every place I go to have
        802.11b/g. However, almost all of them have protected access,
        which I presume they use because they don't want people stealing
        their bandwidth. So here is one idea I think will really
        revolutionize 802.11X... an option in the router that allows you to
        specify the percentage of unprotected bandwidth you are willing to
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5/9     FreeBSD 5.4 Released
        http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/announce.html
        \_ uh, who use FreeBSD nowadays?
           \_ uh, you?
           \_ Me, Soda, GTA, F5, M0n0wall, oodles of hosting providers, loads
              of security/network box providers, etc, etc etc.  Now go
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2/18    I have a 64MB USB thumbdrive and I'd like to put a small
        version of knoppix on it to use as a rescue medium. I don't
        want X. I do want all the cool hardware detection that knoppix
        does so well. Any ideas for something already made for this?
        \_ http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12964  YMMV.  Let me
           know if it works.  I want to do the same for Auditor on 1GB
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