Notes about my old LAN server

description:	Nothing interesting really, I should really clean this up
Author:	Thomas Langewouters

Introduction

My old server functioned as an internet gateway and DHCP and masquerading DNS server. The last two are not necessary, but it's always easy if you just have to plug you cable into the lan, and don't have to configure you network adapters. It also ran an apache web server, to provide an interface to some functions.

Pictures

placed hoog1.jpg	placed hoog2.jpg	modem and coax repeater modem-repeater.jpg	Server on my desk pc330-1.jpg	coax repeater with MAU repeater-MAU.jpg	back of server server-back.jpg
front of server server-front.jpg	network cards server-nics.jpg

Hardware

Intel Pentium I at 166Mhz
96MB RAM
Maxtor 40GB hard disk
D-Link 528 10Mbit Ethernet Card (eth0) -> LAN
Realtek 10/100Mbit Ethernet Card (eth1)-> SpeedTouch Home ADSL modem.

Software

a Linux 2.4.xx kernel
iptables
dnsmasq
dhcp daemon
apache
sshd

Post install steps

First I set up a base Debian system (didn't have to change much of the default configuration). Then I made some modifications.

configure networking

ADSL: run pppoeconf. Don't forget to enter your username as user@PROVIDER
Cable Internet: hook up your modem to an Ethernet card and configure that card to use DHCP (in /etc/network/interfaces)

Create filesystems

create /home fs:

mke2fs -j /dev/hda3
mv home home-tmp
mkdir home
fstab-update
mount /home
mv home-tmp/* home/

User Administration

edit /etc/issue /etc/issue.net /etc/motd adduser thomas, simon, gift edit /etc/passwd, login shell for simon & gift=/bin/false

Network services

ipmasq ssh: enable sshd, use ssh2, PermitRootLogin no dnsmasq: /etc/default/dnsmasq; DNSMASQ_INTERFACE="eth1" uncomment #DHCP_LEASE dhcp cp oldetc/dhcpd.conf /etc/dhcpd.conf samba use encrypted passwords, create smbpasswd

Kernel

maketools:(aptget them) gcc binutils build-essential make kernel: apt-get install kernel-package ncurses-dev wget bzip2 unpack tarball make menuconfig make dep make-kpkg clean && fakeroot make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image dpkg -i kernel-??.deb

aide

(Looking back this aide setup seems foolish?)

apt-get install aide
(put blank floppy in fd0) mke2fs /dev/fd0
mount /floppy
cp /var/lib/aide/aide.db.new /floppy/aide.db
cp /usr/bin/aide /floppy
cp /etc/aide/aide.conf /floppy
  #!/bin/bash
  /floppy/aide --config:/floppy/aide.conf -C
  -> /floppy/check.sh
  #!/bin/bash
  /floppy/aide --config=/floppy/aide.conf --update
  mv /floppy/aide.db.new /floppy/aide.db
  sync
  -> /floppy/update.sh
umount /floppy
(put write protect on)
remove user,noauto from /floppy/ entry in fstab
mount /floppy

Administration tools

file
lsof
Vim: VI improved
nmap: port scanner

Webserver services

apache: the apache web server
php: PHP hypertext preprocessor
mysql: mysql database
popa3d: pop server (to get the mail to your workstation)

Installing giFT

note: When I tried to run ./configure, the compiling tools appeared not to be installed, if you have the same problem, run "apt-get install gcc binutils build-essential make"

package gift

cd to /usr/local/src/
download the source tarball sourcetarball.tar.gz
tar xvzf sourcetarball.tar.gz
cd sourcedir
apt-get install libltdl
./configure
make && make install

package gift-openft

apt-get install zlib1-dev pkg-config
cd to /usr/local/src/
download the source tarball
tar xvzf source tarball
cd giFT-openft-xxx
./configure
make && make install

package gift-fasttrack

cd to /usr/local/src/
download the source tarball
tar xvzf source tarball
cd giFT-FastTrack-xxx
./configure
make && make install

package gift-gnutella

cd to /usr/local/src/
download the source tarball
tar xvzf source tarball
cd giFT-FastTrack-xxx
./configure
make && make install

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Notes about my old LAN server