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Minnow provides a complete
cost effective integrated ISP solution
with high stability, security and
simplified operation.
Subscriber Services
| Email |
- Address provided
by ISP or addresses in subscriber
domain
- POP and SMTP
protocols for access and delivery
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| Internet
Access |
- Browsing and
downloading files, via Squid
Proxy
- Full Internet
access with global IP addresses
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| Chat |
- For online
group communications
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| Bulletin
Boards |
- Post/view
messages for an interest group
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| Web-page |
- Host subscriber's
web-page
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| Disk
Storage |
- For downloads
and uploads
- Archiving
of subscriber files
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| Management |
- Web-based
GUI subscribers to manage
their accounting, to obtain
information about service
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| E-mail
virus scanner |
- Integrated
antivirus system protects
you against virus infected
E-mails.
- Facility to
clean infected mails and deliver
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| Spam
filter |
- Extensive
filtering of unsolicited E-mails
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Data Center Services
| DNS |
- Name server
for the ISP's domain and for
subscribers domain name
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| RADIUS |
- Authentication
of subscribers and accounting
- Used by RAS,
DIAS, corDECT and other access
servers
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| NAT |
- Network Address
Translation enables use of
local IP addresses
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| Squid |
- Transparent
proxy
- Block pornographic
and other obscene sites for
selective or all users
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| Database |
- Fast, simple
and reliable database storage
for billing and other services
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| Admin |
- GUIs and scripts
for administering Minnow
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Security
| Firewall |
- State of the
art packet filtering firewall
to allow only legitimate traffic
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| Tripwire |
- Finding and
reporting of modified binaries
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| Monitoring |
- Log watch for
reporting unauthorized events
and malfunctioning events
detection
- Firewall, routing
table, cron job monitoring
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IDS |
- Intrution Deduction
System to identify threats,
detect scans, probes and attacks
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| Host
hardning |
- Restrict use
of administrator utilities
- Enforce file
permissions
- Effective user
and group management
- Password protected
access
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Reports
| E-mail
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- Periodic/On-demand
detailed reports on E-mail
usage of subscribers
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| URL |
- detailed URL/IP
wise report
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| CPU
& Disk usage |
- To monitor
the CPU load and Disk usage
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| Minnow
log reports |
- Minnow service
status reports
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Redundancy
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Minnow runs
on 2 independent PCs
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provides warm-standby
for all services
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when the active
server fails, the secondary
server takes over automatically
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in many cases,
the switch-over is not noticed
by the subscriber
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important
files(e-mail, web-pages,
etc.) are duplicated on
both servers
- immediate notification
of failures by beep alarm
or E-mail
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Local Languages
Standards
Minnow
uses the following standard or de
facto standard components. Note that
the versions supplied may be more
recent than those listed.
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RedHat 7.2 |
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Sendmail 8.11.6, QPOP 4.0.4
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Apache 3.12, Perl 5.6.1, PHP
4.0 |
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irc 2.10 |
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Squid 2.4.stable1 |
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IC-RADIUS 0.18 |
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BIND 9.1.3 (Berkely Internet
Naming Daemon) |
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MySQL version 11.xx |
Support
Nilgiri
Networks provides training programs
for operators periodically in Madras.
Online support is provided by e-mail.
Customization for specific requirements
could be undertaken on a case-by-case
basis.
Web Client
For ease
of use, Minnow is packed with a user-friendly
web based module using which you can
carry out most operations. There are
basically two modules, one for the
administrator and the other for the
subscriber. |
