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OpenBSD as router?
Post 21628 by auswipe on Monday 20th of May 2002 04:10:42 PM
05-20-2002
I have a LinkSys router, but right now I am only using it to provide NAT functionality. Right now, all my traffic from the LinkSys is sent from the LinkSys to my OpenBSD box acting as firewall/proxy server.
I also run natd on the OpenBSD machine to route traffic to my FreeBSD mailserver behind the OpenBSD box.
I prefer the OpenBSD box as it gives me fine grain control of what I let in/out/monitor. I am using OpenBSD 2.9 with two 3Com905 NICs and it works just fine.
I still use ZoneAlarm on my Win32 machines so that I can control what apps try to contact the outside world. ZoneAlarm is great!
There are a large number of tutorials on how to setup an OpenBSD box as a router.
Here is one such article that is well written:
http://mlowe.phpwebhosting.com/pages...e=openbsd.html
It's a little overkill for a home situation, but it keeps me entertained for hours on end. My wife just doesn't understand why it is cool that we have a mail server in the house. She just looks at me and smiles.
I also run natd on the OpenBSD machine to route traffic to my FreeBSD mailserver behind the OpenBSD box.
I prefer the OpenBSD box as it gives me fine grain control of what I let in/out/monitor. I am using OpenBSD 2.9 with two 3Com905 NICs and it works just fine.
I still use ZoneAlarm on my Win32 machines so that I can control what apps try to contact the outside world. ZoneAlarm is great!
There are a large number of tutorials on how to setup an OpenBSD box as a router.
Here is one such article that is well written:
http://mlowe.phpwebhosting.com/pages...e=openbsd.html
It's a little overkill for a home situation, but it keeps me entertained for hours on end. My wife just doesn't understand why it is cool that we have a mail server in the house. She just looks at me and smiles.
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machine-info
MACHINE-INFO(5) machine-info MACHINE-INFO(5) NAME
machine-info - Local machine information file SYNOPSIS
/etc/machine-info DESCRIPTION
The /etc/machine-info file contains machine meta data. The basic file format of machine-info is a newline-separated list of environment-like shell-compatible variable assignments. It is possible to source the configuration from shell scripts, however, beyond mere variable assignments no shell features are supported, allowing applications to read the file without implementing a shell compatible execution engine. /etc/machine-info contains meta data about the machine that is set by the user or administrator. Depending on the operating system other configuration files might be checked for machine information as well, however only as fallback. OPTIONS
The following machine meta data parameters may be set using /etc/machine-info: PRETTY_HOSTNAME= A pretty human-readable UTF8 machine identifier string. This should contain a name like Lennart's Laptop which is useful to present to the user and does not suffer by the syntax limitations of internet domain names. If possible the internet host name as configured in /etc/hostname should be kept similar to this one. Example: if this value is Lennart's Computer an Internet host name of lennarts-computer might be a good choice. If this parameter is not set an application should fall back to the Internet host name for presentation purposes. ICON_NAME= An icon identifying this machine according to the XDG Icon Naming Specification[1]. If this parameter is not set an application should fall back to computer or a similar icon name. EXAMPLE
PRETTY_HOSTNAME="Lennart's Computer" ICON_NAME=computer-laptop SEE ALSO
systemd(1), os-release(5), hostname(5), machine-id(5) AUTHOR
Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> Developer NOTES
1. XDG Icon Naming Specification http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-naming-spec/icon-naming-spec-latest.html systemd 10/07/2013 MACHINE-INFO(5)