[buug] Hello

[Bob Read]

Hey Matt,
   As far as network setup, you probably want to
dedicate a router to your "techbox" IP address, and
put your Mandrake/FreeBSD boxes "behind" the router. 
Then, you run NAT somewhere (probably on the router). 
This way, when you "switch", you just update your NAT
settings.

Later,
Bob


--- Matt Bockman <bonkers at thetechbox.com> wrote:
> Hello Everyone, My name is Matt and I'm a 14 year
> old  computer techie dude. I live in San Diego,
> California. I'm trying to set up a replacement
> server for my old server. Actually, the server I'm
> going to replace it with is a little bit slower,
> about 500mhz less. My current server
> (thetechbox.com) runs Mandrake Linux and has the
> following functions:
> 
> Route IP address (2 network cards)
> Serve Web PAges (thetechbox.com)
> email (Qmail)
> and I have FTP just for putting up my files and
> stuff for my site. 
> 
> I want to use my 350 machine to run FreeBSD, but I
> want to prepare it so that I can switch the servers
> and in a matter of a few minutes have them it up and
> running. That means I'll have to get apache, qmail,
> and NAT running before I move the server. The hard
> part about the whole thing is the email, which is
> worse yet because I'm putting another network card
> which will give me a diffrent IP address, so I"ll
> have to change it with my domain name thing. I guess
> I could switch the network cards so that my cable IP
> address remains the same. I don't know. I'm very new
> to FreeBSD and don't know a thing about it.
> 
> ~Matt
> 


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Bob Read
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