[nzlug] Server Consolidation

[Dirk Pilat]

On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:28:36 +1300, Nevyn <nevynh at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was wondering if anyone knew of a decent tutorial on running IPCop
> within a virtual machine on the file server so that I can reduce my
> electricity bill and the noise in my room and anything relating to the
> security of doing such a thing. I've noticed in the list of packages
> IPCop now has vmware-tools so I'm pretty sure it can be done securely.


I am probably going to get stoned here, but why not use OpenBSD as server  
and firewall. As far as I know, pf and NAT together with Theo's clampdown  
on unnecessary daemons should make it pretty watertight, and if you want  
to, pkg_add will deliver all the functionality of an Ubuntu server


Dirk