Re: [tlug] Building Linux router/firewall box

["Jim O'Connell" <oconnell@example.com>]

On Thursday, June 26, 2003, at 12:22  PM, Jean-Christian Imbeault wrote:

> Jim O'Connell wrote:
>>
>> Freesco is great. I used it when I had ISDN, but had to switch when I
>> got DSL.
>> Take a look at IPCOP (www.ipcop.org) if Freesco won't do what you 
>> need.
>> I switched over to IPCop and haven't had a problem at all.  Very 
>> simple
>> setup and administration.
>
> Thanks for the link to IPCOP Jim! I've just skimmed the docs and it
> looks great. Haven't tried either yet but IPCOP looks better than
> FREESCO in that it uses a newer kernel and iptables whereas FREESCO
> still uses chains (don't quote me on that though).
>
> I just found out that the floppy on the old box I wanted to use doesn't
> work though. What a pain ... Hopefully I can find a way to install 
> from CD.
It's not a floppy distro like FreeSCO, which is too bad, but 
understandable - you actually need a HD.  The install is done from a 
bootable CD iso that you download, though after the install, you don't 
really need the CD.
(I'd yank it to save power, since that kind of box is typically on all 
the time.)
I've never seen any router that lets you set up things like NAT as 
easily as IPCop does.
IPCop is a fork from the Smoothwall distro, but the guy behind 
SmoothWall has a reputation for being a real jerk, so I avoided it.
It does VPN, too, and Snort, Squid, DynDNS, DHCP and lots of other 
stuff.  No complaints about it at all.
Enjoy.
Jim



>
> Thanks again for the info!
>
> Jean-Christian Imbeault
>
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