Had to continue with the theme. Quick update: things may break while I tune the special rewrite rules that are in use by the software here. It responded to too many things far too easily.
Well, it's been a while, but I've been busy. The good news is, I've come back with a slight update, and some very simple notes to outline it:
- The site has been migrated from a VPS to a more powerful dedicated box. This will allow me to consolidate a lot of things that have been farmed out to multiple devices.
- As a result of the migration, I did notice an issue with some of the permissions, which has been corrected. While I have yet to add any other additional forum segments, the 'News' forum is now readable, so the extended posts are also visible.
- AdSense is finally working. I figure a small ad or two on the side like that wouldn't be too obtrusive, so it functions fine.
So, I've decided to skip the full-on 'completed' status and just start doing things as they come, which has led me to this post. I've not mentioned before, but one of my longer term projects I plan to finish is a homebrew storage array. More particularly, a storage array that presents iSCSI targets. The only cost I intend to budget for in this setup is that of the hardware, which given my goal, and preliminary choices, is more than enough. That being the case, let's start with the base spec, and weigh the software options.
So, I'm slowly working on a proof of concept build inside a VM, but with luck, this project could turn out to be rather fruitful. In short, a fully-featured Linux Firewall/Router/WAP.
I'm currently in testing the basic features, the firewall/router portion, using a VM running on VMWare ESXi 5.0. As far as the filtering goes, it's working fine, but I haven't added any complex setup yet, like VPN support.
