Make darned sure you have the most recent IPCOP release, of course (Shawn knows this better than most!) as there have been various exploits for EVERYTHING.

And follow their implementation recommendations related to turning SSH off (a VPN or tunnel is trivial to add); this is not optional.

I will try to be there to watch the fun...but might not be able to.

http://www.ipcop.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=41

Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:12:56 -0700
Subject: Re: Dead Firewall!
From: badger.shawn@gmail.com
To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us

IPCOP is a very basic Linux version and all TUI based for setup. The worst that you have to run is the setup.sh script that goes through and configures the NIC's and such.  I wouldn't worry about the video card at all.

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold@obnosis.com> wrote:
Yes, installing first in another system and just moving the drive should work - might also want to choose a similar and video card for the base install box and consider doing a full source install (including nice kernel sources depending on distro) in case the kernel might need something later.


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> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> From: ejs@shubes.net
> Subject: Re: Dead Firewall!
> Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:51:36 -0700

>
> der.hans wrote:
> > Am 27. Jan, 2009 schwätzte farli so:
> >
> >> Geez! Its been so long that I dont even remember how to find out what
> >> the hard drive is!
> >
> > Pentium 200 with no USB, so the drive is almost certainly and IDE drive.
> > It's for a firewall, so pretty well any old IDE drive at this point will
> > be large enough to hold the necessary OS.
> >
> > ciao,
> >
> > der.hans
> >
>
> Sounds like we might want to do as Shawn suggested then. I'll have a
> spare PC we can connect/mount the IDE drive in, then install from CD,
> then move the IDE drive back to its home and run setup. I'm assuming we
> can remove/reinstall the HDD in whatever boxen this is.
>
> --
> -Eric 'shubes'
>
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