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Re: switching from a Linux Server to Mac OSX

I speak to whether or not your setup is best or not, but I can offer you what we did if it helps give you some ideas of other ways,...

Rather than routing all traffic through the server, we use a SonicWall router. It's easy to set up, and does all the NAT and Firewall duties. Our SonicWall has three ports, one to connect to your ISP, one for your LAN and one called the DMZ (for the web server). You could put your server on the DMZ and it would continue to do it's services minus the routing. You could also put other servers on the LAN side, but they would not be accessible from the public Internet (perhaps not a bad thing for things like registrar-grades stuff).

Your set up would work fine, it just means that if your server crashes, all of your computers will lose not only file services, but Internet access as well. However, if you have a small campus, you may find that our set up is overkill.

We chose the SonicWall for its ease of management and because it also has a content filter built in as well.

If you want more details, write me off-list,...

Jeff

At 12:20 PM -0400 4/29/02, Meghan Madel wrote:
> Hi,
I have asked a few times in a number of ways how to set up two ethernet
cards and/or how to have one ethernet card (built-in) have two different
ips. Maybe I am not asking the right question. Here are some more details.
I would appreciate any response. Currently we have a Linux server for our
small school. This one machine is our mail, web and file server. It has
two ethernet cards. One that is hooked up to our outside line and one that
is hooked up to a switch and thus the rest of our computers(mostly os 9.x
and some pcs). The one to the outside line is set up with all the
appropriate info from our isp. The other ethernet card has an ip as
10.0.0.1. All the other equipment in our LAN has a static ip address of
10.0.0.X and the router address is 10.0.0.1. I am self-taught most all my
networking duties. And since this is the set-up when I started here I have
stuck with it and have not looked in to setting the network up any other
way. My question is: is this the best (most efficient, safe, etc) way to
set up OSX server? What has anyone else had experience with and how has it
worked?
I appreciate any comments or suggestions!
Thanks,
Meghan
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