[KLUG Advocacy] Re: [KLUG Members] IPCop firewall now available from KLUG.

[Bruce Smith]

>>I recently upgraded my home firewall from Smoothwall to IPCop
>>to try it out.  For those who don't know, IPCop is a branch of
>>the smoothwall project, and the two are very similar now.
>>
>>Currently, the major advantage of IPCop over Smoothwall is the
>>ext3 journalized filesystem, compared to ext2 on Smoothwall.
>>
>>Other improvements are promised in upcoming versions.  Items
>>like iptables, static DHCP entries, and MUCH MUCH more . . .
>>See the IPCop home page for more details:
>>
>>    http://ipcop.sourceforge.net/
>>
>>To purchase IPCop on CDR, or any other CDR, from KLUG:
>>
>>    http://www.kalamazoolinux.org/bsware/
>>
> So, after installing it, what do you think? Any major differences? 


Well, they changed all the names and graphics.  :-)
Other than that, it looks pretty familiar.

I do like the idea of ext3, in case the power goes out.

There is a log entry I'm getting every two seconds.

Jan 13 13:10:35 ipcop kernel: Packet log: input - eth1 PROTO=88
10.69.80.1:65535 224.0.0.10:65535 L=60 S=0xC0 I=0 F=0x0000 T=2 (#12)

I'm not sure what's causing it, since neither IP is mine.
It appears to be logging dhcp broadcasts or something.

I think I'll send that question to the main list, since I don't
there many people are on this list (and it's of the technical
variety).

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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