Greetings! I am quite very new to this, and I have a request for some help, I know what I want to be able to do, just not what I need to do it! I have previously setup a couple FreeNAS servers, and last night followed through with Falko's "The Perfect Server, Ubuntu-Server-10.04" ISPConfig3 using VM VirtualBox. This took me apx 5-6 hours to do and get it working. (I shouldn't have started at midnight!) This was my first time using VM VirtualBox or anything like it, and first time with Ubuntu. I did this to get my head around it and see how it all works, now that I'm satisfied, I would like to tackle my project. My goal is to have an Ubuntu Server that can manage our internet connection with the following key points. - DHCP Server - DNS Server - Be the internet gateway - Manage bandwidth of computers - Throttle connection speeds - Track bandwidth usage of connected computers - Raid-1 Mirror Setup (this I can do hardware based) I believe I have all the hardware required. Is there anything I have missed or any key advise that I could use? Many thanks!
I can answer this, the other points are more complicated, and I think I'd use a hardware router for it. If you use a non-LVM system: http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-se...-system-incl-grub2-configuration-ubuntu-10.04 If you use an LVM system: http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-se...-system-incl-grub2-configuration-ubuntu-10.04
Hi there Falko, The motherboard I have does RAID, but for the purpose of learning, I will go with the LVM Raid-1 setup -I see there is a bit of a difference in how they work which could be to my advantage. I have learned that essentially I want a Proxy server that Caches the content. Hopefully during the week I will have a chance to start piecing together the modules that I need and be able to do a VM of it. I am going to simplify my goal a little now and then build on it stages, I think this will be manageable for myself and a good learning experience. - Ubuntu 10.04 server install - Raid-1 Mirror Setup (LVM) - DHCP Server - DNS Server - Internet gateway - Bandwidth tracker - Internet Cache - Firewall
Look into Squid, its a caching proxy, so it will improve page proformance marginly. Also do you have 2 network cards as that will make things much easier.
