[Chester LUG] Building a server with a difference... Wanna help?

Tue Jan 16 21:56:59 UTC 2007

Hi Guys,

As you know I work in a company that has a lot of careless users and such.
We had one user who managed to break an oldish but sexy Dell X300 laptop.
It's a sweet little thing. She claimed it stopped working one day. Truth is
the screen tells a different story. You can see the shatter marks on the
LCD.

It was pretty much beyond repair screen wise (and economically) so I got
given it. So now its becoming a mini home server because a) it uses a lot
less power than my P4 desktop case server and therefore greener and
secondly, its just a good idea because it will help me learn about unix and
save a nice little lappy from the skip Also it has a 3 hour battary. Battary
backup perhaps (can you do "on cutting ac power, do a graceful shutdown" ?

So far I have added another 128MB, so it has 256 built now and replaced the
tiny Toshiba 20 GB HDD with an 80 GB I had laying about.

So I want it to do just a few things:

Be an file and print server
Function as a proxy with pptp encyption (so i can surf at work and not get
hauled up for playing games)
light (As in very light) HTTP/FTP server

This means stripped down and lightweight is the order of the day, freebsd
all the way, but as you know most of my  bsd knowledge is limited, so that
means so far I installed FreeBSD 6.1 with ssh access via wheel group.

Anyone interested in creating a lean mean server

Stuey

Machine Info:

bsd# dmesg
Copyright (c) 1992-2006 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
        The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0: Sun May  7 04:32:43 UTC 2006
    root at opus.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Mobile CPU       800MHz (797.35-MHz 686-class
CPU)
  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x6b1  Stepping = 1

Features=0x383f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE>
real memory  = 259522560 (247 MB)
avail memory = 244158464 (232 MB)
kbd1 at kbdmux0
acpi0: <PTLTD   RSDT> on motherboard
acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
acpi_ec0: <Embedded Controller: GPE 0x18> port 0x62,0x66 on acpi0
Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000
acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x8008-0x800b on acpi0
cpu0: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
acpi_perf0: <ACPI CPU Frequency Control> on cpu0
acpi_acad0: <AC Adapter> on acpi0
battery0: <ACPI Control Method Battery> on acpi0
acpi_button0: <Power Button> on acpi0
acpi_lid0: <Control Method Lid Switch> on acpi0
acpi_button1: <Sleep Button> on acpi0
pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0
agp0: <Intel 82830M (830M GMCH) SVGA controller> mem
0xe8000000-0xefffffff,0xe0000000-0xe007ffff irq 10 at device 2.0 on pci0
agp0: detected 8060k stolen memory
agp0: aperture size is 128M
pci0: <display> at device 2.1 (no driver attached)
uhci0: <Intel 82801CA/CAM (ICH3) USB controller USB-A> port 0x8c80-0x8c9f
irq 10 at device 29.0 on pci0
uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
usb0: <Intel 82801CA/CAM (ICH3) USB controller USB-A> on uhci0
usb0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci1: <Intel 82801CA/CAM (ICH3) USB controller USB-B> port 0x8ca0-0x8cbf
irq 11 at device 29.1 on pci0
uhci1: [GIANT-LOCKED]
usb1: <Intel 82801CA/CAM (ICH3) USB controller USB-B> on uhci1
usb1: USB revision 1.0
uhub1: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci2: <Intel 82801CA/CAM (ICH3) USB controller USB-C> port 0x8cc0-0x8cdf
irq 11 at device 29.2 on pci0
uhci2: [GIANT-LOCKED]
usb2: <Intel 82801CA/CAM (ICH3) USB controller USB-C> on uhci2
usb2: USB revision 1.0
uhub2: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
pcib1: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 30.0 on pci0
pci2: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib1
cbb0: <RF5C475 PCI-CardBus Bridge> at device 3.0 on pci2
cardbus0: <CardBus bus> on cbb0
pccard0: <16-bit PCCard bus> on cbb0
fwohci0: <Ricoh R5C551> mem 0xe0201000-0xe02017ff irq 11 at device 3.1 on
pci2
fwohci0: OHCI version 1.10 (ROM=1)
fwohci0: No. of Isochronous channels is 4.
fwohci0: EUI64 00:06:5b:80:00:0f:0d:38
fwohci0: Phy 1394a available S400, 2 ports.
fwohci0: Link S400, max_rec 2048 bytes.
firewire0: <IEEE1394(FireWire) bus> on fwohci0
fwe0: <Ethernet over FireWire> on firewire0
if_fwe0: Fake Ethernet address: 02:06:5b:0f:0d:38
fwe0: Ethernet address: 02:06:5b:0f:0d:38
fwe0: if_start running deferred for Giant
sbp0: <SBP-2/SCSI over FireWire> on firewire0
fwohci0: Initiate bus reset
fwohci0: node_id=0xc800ffc1, gen=1, CYCLEMASTER mode
firewire0: 2 nodes, maxhop <= 1, cable IRM = 1 (me)
firewire0: bus manager 1 (me)
xl0: <3Com 3c905C-TX Fast Etherlink XL> port 0xa000-0xa07f mem
0xe0201800-0xe020187f irq 11 at device 5.0 on pci2
miibus0: <MII bus> on xl0
ukphy0: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> on miibus0
ukphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
xl0: Ethernet address: 00:06:5b:89:0d:71
pci2: <network> at device 7.0 (no driver attached)
isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 31.0 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
atapci0: <Intel ICH3 UDMA100 controller> port
0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0x9000-0x900f at device 31.1 on pci0
ata0: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0
ata1: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0
pci0: <serial bus, SMBus> at device 31.3 (no driver attached)
pci0: <multimedia, audio> at device 31.5 (no driver attached)
pci0: <simple comms, generic modem> at device 31.6 (no driver attached)
acpi_tz0: <Thermal Zone> on acpi0
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> port 0x60,0x64 irq 1 on acpi0
atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0
sio0: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on
acpi0
sio0: type 16550A
fdc0: <floppy drive controller> port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0
fdc0: [FAST]
fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
ppc0: <ECP parallel printer port> port 0x378-0x37f,0x778-0x77f irq 7 drq 1
on acpi0
ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/8 bytes threshold
ppbus0: <Parallel port bus> on ppc0
plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0
lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0
lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0
pmtimer0 on isa0
orm0: <ISA Option ROMs> at iomem
0xd0000-0xd2fff,0xd3000-0xd3fff,0xd4000-0xd47ff,0xd4800-0xd4fff on isa0
sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
sio1: port may not be enabled
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
Timecounter "TSC" frequency 797348287 Hz quality 800
Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
ad0: 76319MB <HTS541080G9AT00 MB4OA60A> at ata0-master UDMA100
firewire0: New S400 device ID:00065b80000f48a5
cd0 at sbp0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
cd0: <SAMSUNG CD-ROM SN-124 N102> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device
cd0: 50.000MB/s transfers
cd0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present
Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
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