jwcolby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Sat Jun 16 18:32:49 CDT 2007
And of course, now my system died. Man what a PITA this has been. I'm gonna try the PS and see if that fixes it (I have an old spare). If not, then it's back to square one. My only other spare system isn't really a spare, it is running my address validation software. Of course I could just go build a low end system to perform that function and move that old system out to be the firewall. It would be about $50 for a low end MB plus another $60 or so for a dual proc AMD X2. I have memory, chassis and power supply, disks etc. It would be much easier to contemplate if I knew I would actually get the firewall working though. John W. Colby Colby Consulting www.ColbyConsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2007 12:12 PM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] IPCop Firewall I guess I should have stated directly, "No idea". John W. Colby Colby Consulting www.ColbyConsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2007 11:58 AM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] IPCop Firewall IPCop is a linux / firewall. Linux is built-in. Its sole purpose is to be a firewall. John W. Colby Colby Consulting www.ColbyConsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2007 11:09 AM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] IPCop Firewall Hi John: What version of Linux are you using? Jim -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2007 6:51 AM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: [dba-Tech] IPCop Firewall I Decided to try IPCop for a firewall. After much messing around I finally got it to install on an old system with an old hard disk with a bunch of old NICS. Well... The install wasn't pretty, I just dug through the box looking for at least two NICS that supported 100mbit (yes, I have some OLD stuff). I installed two in the motherboard. It turns out that IPCop understood the motherboard NIC (NVIDIA chipset stuff) which I was not expecting. OTOH, it did not like one of the NICS I found laying around. So ATM I have two functioning NICS which is sufficient to get up and running, one for the WAN and one for the LAN. IPCop will support two more, one for a DMZ and one for something else (I forget what). IPCop was stuck in a loop telling me that one of my NICS was not configured so I just rebooted. Sure enough it booted up off of the hard disk and started asking me for passwords. And of course I had not downloaded the docs (can't seem to get them now, mirror issues!) so I do not know what the passwords are. Sigh. Managed to get past the first one (I think) with administrator / secret but the second (I think) is refusing all of my guesses. I say "I think" because it is at a "dos prompt" (don't know the equiv terminology in Linux). I thought this was going to be a graphic interface but apparently not until you get logged in. So there we are, stuck at password. Nothing ever goes as desired. Sigh. John W. Colby Colby Consulting www.ColbyConsulting.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com