Topic: new to sme ...?

[dexter01]

1. does it have a tftp server ( I need it to give the modems in my network the boot file ) !?
2. does it work as a dns server for my lan network ?
3. does it allow bandwidth limiting for each client to have a specific download speed ?
4. does it work with two dsl lines from the same provider load-balancing (round-robin) ?
- I had a cisco router and tried to use per-packet load-balancing and didn't work too great ( that's probably because the dsl provider doesn't play nice either ) ..
- two modems, different accounts, same provider and I'd like to make some kind of per-destination load-sharing. Hope you understood what I'm trying to do (I want !once a  client system connects to a destination server, the same WAN interface will be used for subsequent connections)
5. does it work as a dhcp server (could I use isc one?I'd like to use my old dhcpd.conf) ?
6. What kind of statistics does it generate ?! ( per-ip, per-ISP, total. if any at all !)
7. does it have a web-interface or something so I can manage it more easy ?
8. can I install ntop ?
9. can I make it run a bash script every hour ( using crontab for example if it has it ) that uses php5 and some other lil tools to generate a php page ? ( this is my statisics page made by me ... )
10. does it have any problems running on a dual - dual-core ! ( '4' processors - 8 when HT enabled ), 2 Gb Ram computer ?! ( smp issues ? ) using raid1 hdd's ( can I set-up raid when installing it ?
11. Can I set-up a route table like this one :
GODZILLA:~ # ip route li
192.168.1.0/24 dev eth1  proto kernel  scope link  src 192.168.1.65
10.3.0.0/24 dev eth0  proto kernel  scope link  src 10.3.0.254
10.1.0.0/24 dev eth0  proto kernel  scope link  src 10.1.0.254
10.2.0.0/22 via 10.1.0.2 dev eth0
10.0.0.0/22 via 10.1.0.2 dev eth0
169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0  scope link
127.0.0.0/8 dev lo  scope link
default via 192.168.1.254 dev eth1
GODZILLA:~ # route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
192.168.1.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth1
10.3.0.0        0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
10.1.0.0        0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
10.2.0.0        10.1.0.2        255.255.252.0   UG    0      0        0 eth0
10.0.0.0        10.1.0.2        255.255.252.0   UG    0      0        0 eth0
169.254.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     0      0        0 eth0
127.0.0.0       0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0 lo
0.0.0.0         192.168.1.254   0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth1

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I guess what I'm trying to ask is "can I do whatever I was doing on
my old gw ?" .. ( compiling tools and stuff ) the only thing I didn't manage to do on my suse gateway now is the round-robin for my nat clients ... and didn't manage to make cisco work in per-destination .. but that doesn't matter .. I'm interested in SMEserver

[bpivk]

Did you check http://smeserver.sourceforge.net/sme7/manual ?

[dexter01]

still .. I'd like some answers from someone with experience or someone who knows it rather than reading a "manual" ... too much info ... manuals usualy get me confused .. I'd apreciate answers to my questions I think they're pretty basic for someone that uses SME on a gateway !

[bpivk]

Ok i'll answer some of the questions....

1. Tftp is mentioned on the forum but you'll have to search yourself. I know that sme6 had some kind of contrib for it.
2. Yes it does (you set it under hostnames in server manager pannel)
3. If you install a proper contrib (qos or wondershaper as written on forum)
5. Yes it does (set it when you install as server/gateway and in server manager if you have special needs)
6. You have a lot of contribs for statistics (web browsing per ip or isp, mail per user,...)
7. Yes it has you login with http://serverip/server-manager
8. Yes you can.
9. yes you can run scripts using crontab


This is so far. I did a lot of searching so i suggest you do the same. You can find all the info if you search for it.

[dexter01]

good .. ok .. so far .. it can do wht other distros can ... does it have native suport for dual-wan round-robin ? this is the only thing i didn't manage to make in my suse gateway ... cisco didn't help much either .