[CentOS] Networking setup/help

Thu May 20 00:42:57 UTC 2010
Thomas Dukes <tdukes at sc.rr.com>

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org 
> [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
> Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 2:17 PM
> To: centos at centos.org
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Networking setup/help
> 
> On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 09:31 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> > If you are starting from scratch and don't know your way around the 
> > linux system, why not use one of the 'appliance' style 
> distributions 
> > like ClearOS (fairly new) or SMEserver (older but still 
> works)?  These 
> > are based on CentOS code but have a simple web interface for 
> > configuration and will probably set up the firewalling/NAT 
> better than 
> > you would do by yourself.
> 
> ClearOS looks awesome.  Have you tried it?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Ranbir

No, I haven't even heard of it. :-(

I've been with CentOS for a long time. Ran RedHat for a longtime, since
around 2.0, the went to Fedora, got tired of stuff not working, so I
switched to CentOS. 

I'm not an IT guy. I have a website that I use it for testing, etc. This is
only about the 3rd 'clean' install I've done since about 1997. I had 5.5
installed as an upgrade until I mucked up an app and tried to restore it
from backup and hosed everything. Now I'm trying to play catch up.

I now have my local network able to connect to the internet. Don't have DNS
setup yet or sendmail. I'm a little afraid to try to restore those files
from my backup as that's what got me in trouble.

I will say, everything is running a lot faster so maybe this wasn't so bad
after all.

Thanks,

Eddie