Kristian Kristensen’s Blog

I’ve finally got a UPS for my server. It is a APC Smart-UPS 700, and I’m using apcupsd as control daemon from my server. It’s a pretty cool UPS with lots of extra power, so I’m planning on hooking up my firewall/gateway too.

Work is going okay, currently I’m planning and starting developing an intranet thingy in ASP.NET. I expect it to be quite cool.

The weather in Denmark is really sucky at the moment, and is probably going to be like this for the next week or so.

I installed Smoothwall (see below), and thought “Hey, that’s pretty cool!”. Afterwards I found IPCop, installed it and immetiately knew that this was the cooler one
I now have a network configured in three zones: an external one (connected to the firewall through the RED ethernet card), an internal one (the GREEN ethernet card) and a DMZ (ORANGE ethernet card). The firewall makes sure that requests coming on port 80 (the http port) is forwarded to my server.
I strongly suggest that you install IPCop if you need a firewall/router/gateway.

First week at work is over. I guess it was okay, I haven’t done alot in the past week, other than drinking quite a few cokes and surfin’ then net

I kind of hope that next week will be more busy…

Bought some ethernet cards and a switch. Actually I’ve bought 4 cards And I’ll be using three of them in my SmoothWall firewall, when I get the time to set it up…

The headline says it all

Jump over to My server.

A week or so ago there the weather in Denmark was really bad. It rained a lot – more than it normally does – and there was a lot of thunder. During this mayhem the power was off for a short period and my server couldn’t handle this Therefore it needed a reinstall.
I started the reinstallation yesterday afternoon and after 5 hours the basis system was up. During the day I got mail and www to work, and now the server runs beautifully

The server is now installed with two RAID 5 arrays each consisting of three disks. I’m running kernel 2.4.18 and using ext3 as filesystem.
Finally managed to figure out what the onboard ethernet card is. It’s not a 3Com card as I thought, it is an AMD PCNet PCI FAST card, which means that the driver supporting the card is distibuted in a standard kernel.

My next project is moving the server to another location and installing a firewall on an old box I have lying around. I think I’ll have a rather thorough look on SmoothWall, which appears to be quite nice!

Started work today, which was kinda nice.