Archive for October 19th, 2007

Installing a new server

Friday, October 19th, 2007

On monday I was in Varna to install a new server. The old one is a P3 450 Mhz 320 MB of RAMsince the developers work on the samba the machine is heavy loaded and the collegues’s workis 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 configurethe 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 Wednesdaythe new server works smoothly. It’s running SAMBA, Apache, MySQL and some routine backupping scriptsetc. 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 recruitmentsites for the users in the office. Also I installed the ipp2p kernel module on the Internet Gatewayto drop all torrent based traffic. I had to make one redirect from 10.10.10.1:80 -> 10.10.10.2:80 I thoughtabout the classical way to redirect port but it didn’t worked after some investigation and helpfrom the people on irc.freenode.net #iptables I figured out If you have to redirect ports on thesame subnet then you have to have also one more SNAT ruleEND—–