Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:41:41 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: from very early this morning... Message-ID: <20090414224141.GA16354@thought.org>
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I'm enclosing most of what I wrote late last night; essentially a request for how to restrucure my network so that it is easily to maintain and uses much less energy. --I sent a few emails from a different platform where I have mutt. Don't know why this did not get out; it was in my ~/Maildir/DOT/[directories on my mailserver. [?] Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 01:56:46 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: mayday, mayday X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 22 years of service to the Unix community. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) Status: RO {edited for [hopeful] clarity} it was my pfsense firewall. it took more than 8 hours, an M.E. buddy retired from Boeing coming over, three fruitless phone calls, then my just-pondering a good 20 minutes. finally, i power-cycled the firewall, and on reboot, fsck cleared out a bunch of mismatches and other disc garbage. upon full reboot, i was back in contact with the rest of the world. the firewall still isn't working completely, but i doubt it is very serious. no worms ... [?] i just can't ping my local IP's. both my main server and firewall are running on extremely old hardware. hp kayaks that i was given years ago and upgraded. disks, memory, probably one-new-fan. still, they are fast approaching their end/live. this brings up some questions that i have been meaning to ask this list for several weeks. until my wife interrupted my dreams with: "you've got to get up and fix your system; i can't get on my laptop.", i was going to do the usual and postpone this for another few days [/weeks/months]. anyway, i was ++stumped. i rebooted everything, Et Cetera. nutshell, around 16.40 i collapsed on sofa, then decided that this has to be D-day; i.e.:: decision-day. or maybe Q-Day, time to ask the list for advice. I have four (4) tower cases here, and between 3 "laptop" computers, not all in continuous use. in short, it is time, or Past-Time, to cut my energy use here. First: i will always stick with FreeBSD as my primary server. no matter what i wind up using as toys, {music, videos, [...]} i'll pony up for at least two new computers. one to do my DNS,mail, and web [and firewall??], and Second, one to replace this desktop, which has hosted FBSD since version 2.0.5. I know where stuff lives ... and so on. Do i really need something as beefy as a pfsense standalone? is there a way i can run it in a jail? before my dec., '06 network meltdown i was using ifp quite well on ns1.thought.org. After a few weeks of help from jon horne, i had a new/used Dell plus the firewall. My former server was stripped down a bit. i got highspeed DSL from Qwest, our telco, a year ago. jon talked the installed thru how things fit. i had no clue then, nor now. the firewall has two NIC's; the Qwest router is part of my network. from the firewall, the cable goes into my 16-port switch. the server also plugs into the switch. that is about the limit of my understanding right now. if i've made any sense so far, great! if not,i'm open for questions. i'm also open for suggestions on how to alter this network configuration. thanks for reading this far. gary It might be simplest to replace my firewall and my server with low-energy-usage i386 computers; is there a better way? > > -- > Polytropon > From Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org
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