Using fedora instead of ipcop

[Eric Shubert]

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. 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Shubert <ejs at shubes.net>
> 
> Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:18:12 
> To: <plug-discuss at 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 at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:nadimhoque at 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 at cox.net
>>     <mailto:sirlight at cox.net>> wrote:
>>
>>         Paul,
>>
>>
>>         ---- Paul Mooring <drpppr242 at gmail.com
>>         <mailto:drpppr242 at 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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