[afnog] RE: how is the switch

[Antonio Godinho]

Wonder,

This should be no problem at all. Are you running any mail service on the 
windows machines?

I can help you with this, I am in Maputo. You can contact me personally if 
needed.

Cheers,


On Wed, 1 Jun 2005 08:18:49 +0200, Wonder Chikohomero wrote
> 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.
> 
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Antonio Godinho
B.Sc.,MCP, MCSE, CCNA, CCNP
Maputo
Mozambique