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Introduction
I'd like to share some of the insight that I gained in setting up a home
network and connecting it to a broadband internet connection. While my setup
uses Sprint's Broadband
Direct, the configuration information should be usable with other
connections. My configuration uses a Solaris x86 machine as a firewall and
router. I have several machines behind the firewall running Linux, Windows
98 and XP, and Solaris SPARC and Intel. I get email for several domains that
I own on these machines, have a web server, and ssh running. I'll cover the
hardware and software side of configuring this setup an the configuration
of the services. I use IPF for my firewall, Postfix for my email, an IMAP
server from the University of Washington, BIND 9.x for internal name services,
and the DHCP server from Sun for machine configuration within the firewall.
These documents are a work in progress. This one was last updated
.
I've still got a bunch to add.
Disclaimer
These instructions are provided to help you set up a home network using a variety
of publicly available software. I can't promise that I didn't miss a step or
have provided incorrect information somewhere. Use at your own risk. When in doubt
make a full system backup before attempting to follow these instructions. Additionally,
no firewall solution is perfect and this one is no exception. My setup is not
hack-proof. Nothing is. The instructions I present here will help you avoid the
vast majority of issues, but if somebody want's to break into your system, they
probably can. I make no claims as to the relative strength or quality of this
solution.
If you've been here before I split up the single document into several different ones based on topic. Its a little easier to read this way. Let me know what you think about it.