Re: Using fedora instead of ipcop

I have never run IPCop... but I have found the following work well...

BSD Based
m0n0wall - http://m0n0.ch/wall/
pfsense - http://www.pfsense.com/

Untangle - http://www.untangle.com
Vyatta - http://www.vyatta.com

All of the above have nice web interfaces. Untangle is pretty neat if you ask me but has some pay modules. Vyatta is a router that I believe runs ontop of debian. I personally use m0n0wall on some little SOEKRIS embedded boxes and it performs very well on 266MHz chips while providing both bandwidth to my computers and terminating IPSec VPNs.

Gilbert




----- Original Message -----
From: Nadim Hoque
To: Main PLUG discussion list
Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 10:28 AM
Subject: Re: Using fedora instead of ipcop


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> wrote:

    Paul,

    ---- Paul Mooring <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 distro like IPCop with a web interface and potentially outdated packages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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