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Bruce Roberts

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Feb 4, 2003, 4:04:39 PM2/4/03
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I've been playing around with IPCop ( www.ipcop.org ). It is a version of
Linux
that is made for the SOHO/home environment. It is very easy to set up (but
read the
installation documentation first). It sets up a firewall, DHCP, IP
masquerading,
and IDS (snort). It also allows for a DMZ setup and VPN connections. Once
it's set up it is administered from a web interface. There is also a web
interface to
the log files. Is anyone using this yet and have you run into any problems?
I'm
getting ready to set up a home network and think this work really well for
what I
want.

Bruce


Jeff Collins

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Feb 4, 2003, 4:31:10 PM2/4/03
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If you like IPCop, you may like Smoothwall GPL (http://www.smoothwall.org)
as well. The current beta has even more features and runs on 2.4.x kernel
structure. Since there is a corporate product as well, it gets lots of
updates and patches.

I've been running the 2.0 beta 4 since for a week or so and have had no
problems...

Jeff

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Stuy

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Feb 4, 2003, 6:20:13 PM2/4/03
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Bruce Roberts wrote:

I`ve used both with no problems at all.
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Stuy

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Jason

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Feb 4, 2003, 6:19:05 PM2/4/03
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* Bruce Roberts <nspm-b...@ail.org-nspm>:

Ive been running IPCop for quite some time and it's a great product and
I haven't had any problems with it or the developers, which is more then
I can say for Smoothwall (excellent product, shame about some of the
people)

IPcop has a very active user mailing list if your interested or have
questions, theres also a not quite as active user web forum too. Links
are on the main IPCop website.


Jason

John McCabe

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Feb 5, 2003, 3:57:35 AM2/5/03
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I haven't used IPCop but, if I need to set up another Firewall, I will
use it in place of Smoothwall (from which IPCop is derived). I've been
quite impressed with the ease of use and reliability of Smoothwall,
but I read the Smoothwal newsgroup (alt.os.linux.smoothwall) and there
are far too many adverse comments on the response of the Smoothwall
staff to queries, notification of errors etc that I don't want to
continue with its use.

Best Regards
John McCabe

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John McCabe

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Feb 5, 2003, 3:58:19 AM2/5/03
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On Tue, 04 Feb 2003 21:04:39 GMT, "Bruce Roberts"
<nspm-b...@ail.org-nspm> wrote:

Something I forgot to mentione - the alt.os.linux.smoothwall newsgroup
quite often has questions/advice on use of IPCop so that could be
worth watching too.

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