Now that the DMZ was set up and ready to go, the systems on the LAN inside the firewall needed to be reloaded and configured.
socks.shn.nu
Socks was chosen to be the internal file server and Red Hat Linux 6.0 was installed. Of the two disks, the 3.5GB was used as the boot disk with /home for home directories and the 25GB data disk was mounted as one huge 23.5GB partition under /home/warehouse01. As the need arises, more 25GB (or larger) disks will be installed as /home/warehouse02, etc.
Because of the large drives, the entire Red Hat distribution was installed and unused services were disabled for security. Making the jump from Red Hat Linux 5.0 to 6.0 was quite a large step, and I wanted to see everything 6.0 had to offer. So, not only was socks configured as a file server, but also as a user workstation to play with the new window managers that have become available. Even though virtually all Web site development is done using Adobe GoLive under Mac OS, the Linux workstation is used for most systems administration tasks.
To serve our internal Macintosh G3 workstations, socks also runs Netatalk, the UNIX implementation of the AppleTalk protocol. File transfer speeds over the internal 10BaseT LAN are surprisingly fast, but we will be moving to switched 100BaseT eventually to help speed things up. 10BaseT seems fast until you routinely start opening up 20MB Photoshop files for editing. All other services on socks are set up almost exactly like fire with Apache, MySQL, PHP3, etc.
To tie everything together, a Belkin OmniView 6-port KVM switch was used to control akasha, fire, wind and socks from the same keyboard, mouse, and monitor. All machines sit on an 8 foot vented steel rack, and an air conditioner keeps the machine temperature at 72 degrees. The entire NOC can be controlled from the keyboard and monitor hooked up to the OmniView.