The 98 box should be more than enough for an IPCop host. That would be good to start with. I'd definitely consider virtualizing your servers when you get a chance. I'd put a (mirrored) raid-1 array on it first if you don't have one already. Software raid would be just fine. Nadim Hoque wrote: > Btw my fedora box is pretty beefy with an athlon 64xe 4200+ and 2 gigs of ram and so it does cuda I also have a geforce 8600 gts. Also I have found an old computer that had 98 on it so I think I could use it. The reason I'm considering doing this is because my router I don't think can handle torrents b/c when I torrent internet is really slow even when the dl speed is around 400kBs and I do have cox and the dl speed is around 20 megs. > > Nadim > Nadim Hoque > Cell: 480-518-6235 > Address: 6302 West Kent Drive > Chandler, Arizona 85226 > Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Eric Shubert > > Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:18:12 > To: > Subject: Re: Using fedora instead of ipcop > > > IPCop is indeed lean and mean. It runs headless very nicely once it's > loaded. Maintenance/configuration tasks are all done via the web > interface, although you can ssh into it if need be for higher levels of > customization. There are plenty of add-ons available for it though as is. > > An old desktop box designed for Win95 makes a nice IPCop. I'd definitely > try to find a retired box to use. Or simply run it as a VM guest in a > server. > > Nadim, depending on your server's capacity, you might consider loading > VMware server on your existing box, and running a virtual IPCop host on > it. You could then migrate your existing applications to one or more VM > guests on the same box. This would save on hardware and power, and give > you fewer points of failure (hardware wise). You would need a P4 > processor w/ 1G of ram minimal to start with. More ram would allow for > more VMs. I use one VM as a WAN server (apache, email), and another for > a LAN server (samba). Once you're virtual, you can create whatever > combination of hosts suits your fancy. Pretty cool, methinks. > > mike havens wrote: >> isn't ipcop a text based distro or one that doesn't have a great need >> for resources? why not go to the recycling center downtown or the scout >> swapmeet or look around thrift stores for a useable computer? >> >> On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Nadim Hoque > > wrote: >> >> Hey >> >> So perhaps I will keep my router for now and when I do get the money >> I will purchase a new computer and just put ipcop on it. It's a good >> idea because my fedora server is running a samba, media, and maybe a >> ftp/drop box type server and I think it would be best for another >> computer to do the routing. Thanks for your inputs. >> >> Nadim >> >> >> On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Sir Light > > wrote: >> >> Paul, >> >> >> ---- Paul Mooring > > wrote: >> >> > >> > I see where you're coming from on that but for some reason >> (probably >> > because I don't really know what I'm talking about) running a >> specialty >> > distro like IPCop with a web interface and potentially >> outdated packages >> > just seems like it would open the door for all sorts of >> security issues >> > to me, the same reason I don't like to use LFS, it's hard to >> stay on >> > updates. Anybody who understands the security aspects better >> than I do >> > have an opinion on the security implications of running >> IPCop, pfsense, >> > ect. vs making your own router from Debian, Gentoo, ect? >> >> I have been running IPCop for as I said before more than 5 >> years. They do update it whenever a security problem uncovered. >> Doing the updates is very very easy. You can subscribe to their >> announcement mailing list so that when a new one does come out, >> you update your ipcop setup. >> >> Jon >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - >> PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> >> >> -- >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> > > -- -Eric 'shubes' --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss