Well, due to what I consider an abnormal level of LAN traffic, I feel compelled to install and utilize some packet analysers on my network. Wireshark is what I will be using, or rather, learning to use. With a webserver, an FTP server and a PTP client running, with merely an actiontec router/firewall, I suppose I was a bit naieve to wait this long.
Pacet sniffers like wireshark, look interesting and can be very usefull. Before long even my kids IM chat will be subject to random checking for inapropriate conversations. That is, after I can figure out what all that gobblety-gook is that wireshark is telling me is inside each packet on my network.
Might as well be fishing for whales...
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Sunday, April 27, 2008
NAS
While looking for a much better long term solution to my ever expanding library of Music and video, I decided finally on a NAS device. While external HDs are nice, I needed something more permanant and robust and a "Network Attached Storage" device seemed the best option.
I went with a product called FreeNas. FreeNAS is a very basic Linux (BDS actually) OS that does really nothing but manage and serve a configuration of harddrives on even very old slow computers. As a PC hardware junkie I always have a few in various states of repair/upgrade, and so the bare bones PC configuration was not hard to put together.
I currently have it installed on a P3-800 w/ 256MB of ram and a couple of new 500GB WD Hds.
While it is possible to load and run the "OS" (about 60MB is needed) on a flash card or even a USB thumb drive, I went with the "stock" 10G HD as my BIOS did not offer these other exotic boot options w/o a special adapter ot two.
As I expand the storage capacity, (an undoubtable eventuality) I will go with a gadget that converts 2 of the 5.25" bays up top to a 3 bay HD "cartridge. Probably this one.
Included FTP server, RAID optins (which I do not use), Logical WEB interface and best of all, an included dynamic DNS updater for my zoneedit account.
Now I don't have to call home and have my wife run a whatismyip.com every time I want to remote access something on my home network. Now I can instead just go to amazingpowerplunger.com.
I went with a product called FreeNas. FreeNAS is a very basic Linux (BDS actually) OS that does really nothing but manage and serve a configuration of harddrives on even very old slow computers. As a PC hardware junkie I always have a few in various states of repair/upgrade, and so the bare bones PC configuration was not hard to put together.
I currently have it installed on a P3-800 w/ 256MB of ram and a couple of new 500GB WD Hds.
While it is possible to load and run the "OS" (about 60MB is needed) on a flash card or even a USB thumb drive, I went with the "stock" 10G HD as my BIOS did not offer these other exotic boot options w/o a special adapter ot two.
As I expand the storage capacity, (an undoubtable eventuality) I will go with a gadget that converts 2 of the 5.25" bays up top to a 3 bay HD "cartridge. Probably this one.
Included FTP server, RAID optins (which I do not use), Logical WEB interface and best of all, an included dynamic DNS updater for my zoneedit account.
Now I don't have to call home and have my wife run a whatismyip.com every time I want to remote access something on my home network. Now I can instead just go to amazingpowerplunger.com.
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