Saturday, December 29, 2007

So long Belkin and thanks for all the airwaves

My beloved and trusty (so far) Belkin wireless router died today, it got fried when plugged to 220V, it runs on 110V...
So, it was an excellent opportunity to get my newly built incarnation of Goliath, as the main router and firewall for the setup.
It wasn't that hard to setup, it might have taken me a couple of hours, right now Goliath is working as the firewall, DHCP server, caching DNS server & NTPD server.
On top of that, since that box has a huge 80 GB drive on it, I'm using it to download BitTorrents, right now I'm running 6 torrents, on 6 screens, and the load of the OpenBSD barely scratches 1 dot something. I love this OpenBSD stuff! Specially how things are geared towards "getting things done", no bullshit, simple results, as an example, the explanation on how to make your OpenBSD box onto a DHCP Server is amazing, is somehow like a haiku.

For the whole setup, used the FAQs on the OpenBSD site, the firewall at the moment is the plain vanilla example for the Firewall for Home or Small Office, the DNS server setup, a caching only one, it is like the setup of a regular one, except that Bind does not server any zone, but the built-in ones.

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