[afnog] RE: how is the switch

[Wonder Chikohomero]

I do not have a Unix system unless if Linux RedHat 7.3 will do. 

Can I also take this opportunity to ask how best I can use the following
hardware? 

My current network is running on 2 Windows 2003 servers, 1 Windows 2000
server, I would like to change to Unix for the following services, email
server, proxy server, Asterix server, ftp server, web server. I only
have 1 IP public all my workstations are on private IP addresses.

My hardware has the following specifications;
	
	2 Intel Serverboard SE7210TP1

	Dual Serial ATA drives (Raid 0;1), 2 * 80GB
	IDE drives, 3 * 80GB each
	Total disk storage = 400GB
	IDE DVD-RW drive
      512MB RAM

Regards,

Wonderc

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Candler [mailto:B.Candler at pobox.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 3:40 PM
To: Wonder Chikohomero
Cc: Anita Afawubo; afnog at afnog.org
Subject: Re: [afnog] RE: how is the switch

On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 11:05:24AM +0200, Wonder Chikohomero wrote:
>    How can I install a tftp server to
>    back up my switches and router binaries?

What Unix platform do you have?

Most Unixes have tftp servers already there. For example, under FreeBSD
you
can just uncomment this line from /etc/inetd.conf:

tftp   dgram   udp     wait    root    /usr/libexec/tftpd      tftpd -l
-s /tftpboot

Then:

    # killall -1 inetd
    # mkdir /tftpboot

If you want to *upload* files to the tftp server, you'll either need to
create them first with the correct name: e.g.

    # touch /tftpboot/ios123
    # chmod 666 /tftpboot/ios123

or else add the '-w' flag to the tftpd command line in inetd.conf.

Note that tftpd is very insecure - no passwords are used when uploading
or
downloading files! So you probably should use /etc/hosts.allow to limit
access to certain IP addresses. Or else disable tftpd when you've
finished
using it.

Regards,

Brian.