connection! It'll be (minimum) 256K up/downstream guaranteed, and those rates could fluctuate a bit depending on the usual variables.

Yes, I consider this on-topic because two of my intranet's servers will be MicroVAX III's. ;-) After much fencing with my local telco over loop lengths, and a snail-mail letter asking them why their competition (AT&T and Covad) were willing to do what they were not (at the time), I have a due date for my DSL connection! It'll be (minimum) 256K up/downstream guaranteed, and those rates could fluctuate a bit depending on the usual variables. This means that, shortly thereafter, I'll be taking full control of my own domain, including all servers, and (finally!) starting to set up what I hope will be a very useful FTP and web site for anyone who futzes with "classic" computing or electronic equipment (ham radio stuff included). This won't happen overnight! It's going to take some time to build up the thing the way I want it to be. With that in mind, I have a request: Those of you who are fluent with setting up servers (Unix/NetBSD-based) on a small intranet, and tying said intranet through a Livingston IRX/Firewall router to the outside world, AND that would be willing to help me keep from making too many mistakes in setting things up, please raise your hand and let me know if I can contact you periodically for help and advice. FWIW, I plan to have: Two DNS, two mail (for redundancy/fault tolerance), single news/FTP box combined, and a single web server. My current setup is on one of the InterNIC-reserved Class C net spaces: 192.168.42.0 - 192.168.42.254. The DSL "modem" (a misnomer if I ever saw one) will be a Cisco 675. Its Ethernet port will tie to one side of the Livingston router. Said router will provide firewalling and packet-filtering capabilities that the Cisco lacks. The Livingston will also provide NAT services to translate the five static IPs I get from USWest onto the private network side. I plan to use my own pair of DNS servers as primary and secondary hosts for my domain, with USWest acting as tertiary. The DNS boxes will be old Sun IPC's. They've already been configured. Thanks much! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Bruce Lane, Owner and head honcho, Blue Feather Technologies http://www.bluefeathertech.com // E-mail: kyrrin(a)bluefeathertech.com Amateur Radio: WD6EOS since Dec. '77 "Our science can only describe an object, event, or living thing in our own human terms. It cannot, in any way, define any of them..."