= Welcome to the Proxy Factory project =
== Objective ==
The aim of this project is to build a 'factory' based on Nanobsd to generate proxy images, similar to the 'nodefactory' that is used for generating node-images. We will try to incorporate the results of the [http://www.genericproxy.org/ Hogeschool Leiden project 'generic proxy'].

== Functionality ==

 * proxy server for internet browsing from wleiden.net (no access to local subnet if present), e.g. tinyproxy
 * name server for wleiden.net, e.g. nsd
 * ntpd for wleiden.net
 * sshd for administrative use
 * snmpd  for monitoring
 * no browsing from wleiden.net of local webserver(s)
 * access to wleiden.net from local network
 
== Previous (and other ongoing) work ==
Basic work on configuration of a proxy-PC has been done by Dennis, see http://svn.wirelessleiden.nl/svn/projects/proxy/.

There is also a howto-description for building proxy-images on the basis of the (outdated) FreeBSD6.0 configuration: http://svn.wirelessleiden.nl/svn/projects/proxy/proxy_op_soekris.txt.

Recently Richard has provided some notes on building a proxy for a Soekris-compact flash card: http://svn.wirelessleiden.nl/svn/projects/proxy/2.0/

Hogeschool Leiden is carrying out the GenericProxy project, see also [http://www.genericproxy.org Generic Proxy project website].


== Approach ==
Files will be stored in a dedicated [http://svn.wirelessleiden.nl/svn/projects/proxy/2.0 svn directory].

We will use the NodeFactory as the basis for this project, based on nanobsd, but build on FreeBSD-8.0.
Tinyproxy, ntpd, sshd, snmpd are already included in the packagelist.
 * rebuilding the nodefactory on the basis of FreeBSD-8.0
   No surprises here. We do not need the patches to the driver modules, only usbdevs.patch is still required.
 * kernel configuration needs some adjustments for 8.0. 
   notably following options should be commented out:
    * # options     CLK_USE_I8254_CALIBRATION
    * # options     ADAPTIVE_GIANT  # Giant mutex is adaptive.
    * # device      wlan_scan_ap    # 802.11 AP mode scanning.
    * # device      wlan_scan_sta   # 802.11 STA mode scanning.
    * # device      ppp             # Kernel PPP
    * # device      ugen            # Generic
    * # device      sio

 * adjustments of nanobsd.wleiden config file (required for kernel to build):
 add the option NANO_PARALLEL_MAKE="1"




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