-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 2:17 PM To: centos@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