Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:52:10 -0500 From: <wmc20@bellsouth.net> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Suggested Books & Guides on small bisiness LAN with FreeBSD Message-ID: <20061129205210.KSAH26055.ibm59aec.bellsouth.net@mail.bellsouth.net>
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Hi Guys, I'm looking for advice or suggestions on how to [re]design a small business network with FreeBSD. I know that's a pretty broad topic -- I'm not looking for a simple answer, so much as reference materials. Background: for over 5 years we've had our business running with a few FreeBSD servers. An external Internet connected box serves smtp, imap, http, ftp, dns (external and LAN internal) and http-proxy. Another server (on LAN behind NAT router) has Samba file & print services, lpd and some other things. I guess what I'm looking for is "best practice" suggestions for configuring all this optimally. Problems we have currently include DNS -- if the Internet connection goes down, the server chokes, and we can't even get internal DNS. And security issues, eg: should the email accounts reside on an Internet-exposed server? O'Reilly sells "Windows to Linux Migration Toolkit" which sounds like some of what I'm looking for, except that it's for Linux -- but I've dabbled with that kludge enough to probably apply the concepts to FreeBSD ;) Any other suggestions on good books, web sites, etc? -Wayne B.
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