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 <nadimhoque@gmail.com
> <mailto:nadimhoque@gmail.com>> 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 <sirlight@cox.net
> <mailto:sirlight@cox.net>> wrote:
>
> Paul,
>
>
> ---- Paul Mooring <drpppr242@gmail.com
> <mailto:drpppr242@gmail.com>> 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 outdated packages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
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