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
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Shubert <ejs@shubes.net>
>
> Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:18:12
> To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> 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 <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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