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Date:      Tue, 07 Sep 1999 20:39:15 -0400
From:      "Francisco Reyes" <freyes@inch.com>
To:        "freebsd-jobs@freebsd.org" <freebsd-jobs@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Need remote help for misc setup issues.. possible remote part time sysadmin
Message-ID:  <199909080038.UAA11737@arutam.inch.com>

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Note: I am not in the jobs list, so please reply to my email...

I had enough trying to figure out how to make a gateway with FreeBSD
ipfw and natd.
I am looking for someone to help me and I am willing to pay.

I am looking for someone with who I can build a relation and hopefully
have this person help me not only with my home network, but with a box
I run with Netmax (www.netmax.com).

I could have gone the easy route and use Netmax at home, but I really
want to see how things work under the hood.. I just don't have the time
or patience to figure them out myself.

The job at hand:
-Configure ipfw/natd for a home network while not breaking Samba

Samba was working fine before I tried setting up ipfw/natd in the
kernel and changing /etc/rc.conf

Prefer someone who is currently working as a sysadmin somewhere, but
basically if you have the experience I will consider.

A good working knowledge of security/ipfw (or by other means) a
definite plus since I would eventually like someone to look at my site
running netmax (I got the firewall working, but I am sure the rule
order are non-optimal).

Other things which I would probably need are
-Help installing ports (i.e. just tried ssh and the port on my 3.2 box
did not work even after installing the package to bring the ports up to
date).

I will be willing to consider someone with less experience with a lower
rate.. but the rate will highly define the type of relation (i.e. the
higher the rate the more I will try myself before going to the
consultant...).

If you need references I have two other remote consultants that I do
work with that could answer your questions regarding my paying
history.. etc....

I basically am a strong believer of offsite/remote work and before the
two consultants I am using now I had used two other consultants and
have been happy with hiring people over the net.

Please include:
- Your experience WITH FREEBSD. In particular relating to networking,
security and routing (ipfw/natd), sendmail (mostly for my business
site), www (Also for business site) and DNS.
-Your rate
-Timezone/country. I am in eastern standard time/US.

It could be one person or a group of friends/hackers... as long as I
have a single point of contact.
I would find acceptable to have work done within a week for anything.

The email I posted to questions was...


*******************
I am trying to make a FreeBSD box a gateway for a windows box at
home.

I am using Natd with an "open" firewall.
Not only the windows box can not see the internet, but now the
FreeBSD box takes a very long time at bootup  specially at the
startup of some of the daemons such as sendmail and Samba. Ping
to the box works fine, but telnet to the box takes much longer
than usual to get a prompt.

Pinging the FreeBSD box works but trying to ping the windows box
gives an error.
PING tomasa.reyes.somos.net (10.0.0.10): 56 data bytes
ping: sendto: No route to host

Relevant files:

/etc/rc.conf
hostname="sanson.reyes.somos.net"
ifconfig_ed1="inet 10.1.1.10  netmask 255.255.255.0"
ifconfig_ppp0="inet 207.240.212.43  netmask 255.255.255.0"
network_interfaces="ppp0 ed1 lo0"

firewall_enable="YES"
firewall_type="open"
firewall_quiet="NO"
natd_enable="YES"       <=====
natd_interface="tun0"   <=====
natd_flags=""
gateway_enable="YES"    <=====
named_enable="YES"

The name server is setup just as a chaching DNS.

nslookup
Default Server:  localhost.reyes.somos.net
Address:  127.0.0.1

/etc/resolv.conf
domain  somos.net
nameserver 127.0.0.1
nameserver 207.240.128.28
nameserver 207.240.140.102

I confirmed that natd is coming up
ps -aux |grep natd
root      94  0.0  1.0   428  212  ??  Is    3:04AM   0:00.00
/sbin/natd -n tun0

The Natd man page specifies to have the interface up before
using it.
Where would call user ppp so it gets started before natd? Is
this related to not finding a route to my windows box and the
slow bootup?

*******************



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