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Give me a networking project idea!

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Ace69

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I have a Redhat 7.1.94 (Roswell) that is acting as a router for my 2 PCs off of my cable modem. I want to be able to learn some new stuff with networking and Linux, but I don't have any project ideas to tackle! I have had a few ideas that I may try to do, but I haven't decided yet.

1. Set up a full fledged Bind DNS.
2. Set up Sendmail w/ webmail.
3. Set up a DHCP server.
4. Set up IP MASQ.
5. Learn Perl.

Any more ideas on a project?
 
5. Setup a IMAP server
6. setup webmail (I use and like IMP).
7. setup MySQL (horde and IMP require it so it's a pre-req to #6)
8. Learn perl =)
 
Good ideas, good ideas.... However, I will have to reject the IMAP server, MySQL ideas. Those don't suit my fancy. 🙂 I will add the webmail and learning perl idea though. Thanks!
 
Setting up sendmail isn't really much of a project. It would take you anywhere from 30 minutes to a couple of hours, tops.
You could set up BIND I suppose, as long as you're willing to be VERY vigilant with regard to future security updates.

For a project--can't say it would be terribly useful--you could set up an NIS network and secure it (that's the project part of it, lol). What OS are the other PCs using?

How about Samba shares?

 
The reason I suggested IMAP and MySQL in addition to webmail is because most webmail components (atleast the ones I setup) use IMAP, so an IMAP server is needed and the Apache webmail component I use (IMP) needs MySQL to store it's settings, usernames, sessions, etc.
 
<> Installing/configuring SAMBA
<> Setup a full-fledged Firewall (especially if you're running mail services and DNS and stuff)

 
The other PCs are both dual booting Slack and WIN98. I have already set up Samba and I have also had the idea of developing a really nice firewall script sometime. I have one, but I "borrowed" it from another company. 🙂

NIS would also be a good endeavor.

Wow, I didn't realize how much work I need to do.
*pulls up sleeves and grabs a beer* -- "I am ready to get to learning now!" 😀😀😀
 
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