> -----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