User:Faust

[edit] About

Name: Patrick C.
Occupation: Operations Specialist for a small Texas based company.
Random: I hope to one day have a greater grasp of networking and security related items.

[edit] Contributions

[edit] Please Note That My Items Are Volatile

• Coming Soon!
  • Networking
    • Creating a enterprise network from scratch.
      • FreeBSD: Postfix, Courier IMAP, OpenLDAP, Embedded FreeBSD (via pfSense), DHCP, DNS.
      • Windows 2003: Active Directory, Exchange.
  • Security
    • Network Security Monitoring (NSM). (This will be very much after I get all critical items running.)
      • Create a server and client for NSM using HeX.
    • SSH
      • Securing OpenSSH a little more than usual

And more to come ....

[edit] My articles

Samba File Server Serving files with Samba
ZFS On FreeBSD 7 ZFS File Server
VMware ESX Project Production ESX Setup
Screen Config Custom Screenrc
ZSH Config Make ZSH Your Own
Safer OpenSSH Secure By Default

[edit] The Way

Things have greatly changed in my plans for my network. I will be using VMware ESX to replace all of my production servers. Anything that is trivial will be consolidated into single servers. Such as print, scanner, and backup. FreeBSD will be used much more than initially expected. Since I have actually taken the time to stop and buy some books and read I will use FreeBSD. Exchange will be used later but in the meantime I will be using Postfix (It will be used as MTA regardless), Courier IMAP and Squirlmail. I will replace Linksys routers with embedded FreeBSD (via pfSense). Backup servers will consist of FreeBSD using software raid5. I will do my best to document everything for those looking for a simpler way as I am.