Comments on: ipcop rocks my socks http://evilrouters.net/2006/01/17/ipcop-rocks-my-socks/ im in ur datacentrz configurin' ur routerz Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:46:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: John H. Sawyer http://evilrouters.net/2006/01/17/ipcop-rocks-my-socks/comment-page-1/#comment-50 John H. Sawyer Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://evilrouters.net/archives/181#comment-50 <p>I tested it out for a while and just decided it was more than I needed. Not only that, I really didn't want to dedicate a machine solely to being a firewall/IDS/proxy/kitchensink. Overall, it is a very impressive solution for being free and in such a small package.</p> <p>For about 2 years, I have relied on a Linksys WRT54G with a custom linux distro to provide firewalling and port forwarding. Anything needing internal access was handled via SSH and SSH port forwarding which was running on my webserver. In the next month, I plan on moving to a Zyxel Zywall 70 firewall with IPSec VPN. It is a pretty expensive (~$1000) device but it was "free" after a magazine review and will allow me to do QoS so that bittorrent won't saturate my link and slow down my website traffic. Instead of an IDS, I will be adding Argus to my webserver to keep track of all network traffic and have a reference if an incident ever does occur.</p> <p>Anyways...that was more than I planned on writing. I wish you continued good luck with it. Keep us updated on your experience with it.</p> <p>-jhs</p> I tested it out for a while and just decided it was more than I needed. Not only that, I really didn’t want to dedicate a machine solely to being a firewall/IDS/proxy/kitchensink. Overall, it is a very impressive solution for being free and in such a small package.

For about 2 years, I have relied on a Linksys WRT54G with a custom linux distro to provide firewalling and port forwarding. Anything needing internal access was handled via SSH and SSH port forwarding which was running on my webserver. In the next month, I plan on moving to a Zyxel Zywall 70 firewall with IPSec VPN. It is a pretty expensive (~$1000) device but it was “free” after a magazine review and will allow me to do QoS so that bittorrent won’t saturate my link and slow down my website traffic. Instead of an IDS, I will be adding Argus to my webserver to keep track of all network traffic and have a reference if an incident ever does occur.

Anyways…that was more than I planned on writing. I wish you continued good luck with it. Keep us updated on your experience with it.

-jhs

]]> By: jeremygaddis.com » IPCop, Part II http://evilrouters.net/2006/01/17/ipcop-rocks-my-socks/comment-page-1/#comment-51 jeremygaddis.com » IPCop, Part II Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://evilrouters.net/archives/181#comment-51 <p>[...] A couple of days ago, I wrote “IPCop Rocks My Socks” in which I told about installing and setting up IPCop for my home office use. I have to say, I still haven’t had a single issue with. [...]</p> [...] A couple of days ago, I wrote “IPCop Rocks My Socks” in which I told about installing and setting up IPCop for my home office use. I have to say, I still haven’t had a single issue with. [...]

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