Notes about my old LAN server
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 your network adapters. It also ran an Apache web server, to provide an interface to some functions.
Pictures
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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
apt-get install gcc binutils build-essential make
# kernel
apt-get install kernel-package ncurses-dev wget bzip2
tar xf linux-...
make menuconfig
make dep
make-kpkg clean && fakeroot make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image
dpkg -i kernel-??.deb
aide
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
cat >/floppy/check.sh
#!/bin/bash
/floppy/aide --config:/floppy/aide.conf -C
^D
cat >/floppy/update.sh
#!/bin/bash
/floppy/aide --config=/floppy/aide.conf --update
mv /floppy/aide.db.new /floppy/aide.db
^D
sync
umount /floppy
# activate write protect switch
vi /etc/fstab # remove user,noauto from /floppy/ entry
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 /usr/local/src/
wget 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 /usr/local/src/
wget source tarball
tar xvzf source tarball
cd giFT-openft-xxx
./configure
make && make install
package gift-fasttrack
cd /usr/local/src/
wget source tarball
tar xvzf source tarball
cd giFT-FastTrack-xxx
./configure
make && make install
package gift-gnutella
cd /usr/local/src/
wget source tarball
tar xvzf source tarball
cd giFT-FastTrack-xxx
./configure
make && make install
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