jwcolby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Sat Jun 16 10:58:28 CDT 2007
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