Oh, I should mention that I downloaded and verified the patches then applied them to the firewall through the web interface. This was particularly slick. I didn't have to do anything more than that. The web interface invokes a script that untars the files and does some magic stuff.
Got to like that. Jarrod ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jarrod Major" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 9:57 AM Subject: (clug-talk) IPCop success > Hey All, > > I figured that I should post something about my foray into firewalling. So > far everything seems to be on the up and up. I have to say that when things > work they work very well. The install was a breeze and configuring it seems > to be fairly simple. > > I have it set up as a Red & Green firewall. I may add the Orange later. For > those of you that don't know what the hell I am talking about. SmoothWall > and IPCop have a setup where the NIC that connects to the Internet is called > Red and the NIC that attaches to your internal network (behind the firewall) > is green. Orange is a DMZ. > > You are given lots of choices with regards to the type of setup you have. I > am on aDSL so I was able to set it up that way. It supports dial-up and even > DSL through USB if you have that particular kind of setup. > > Setting up the NIC's is a no-brainer as long as you stick to PCI, the ISA's > are more tricky (understandably). I got caught on the passwords. It gets you > to set three: one for root, one for setup and one for (web) admin. The web > admin one should be alphanumeric ONLY. I had stuck an odd character that was > not recognized. So this meant having to log into the box as root and > updating the users file with an appropriate password. Not an overly > difficult procedure but I had to search a bit for the user file. > > I decided I wanted to add the list of adservers to the hosts file and this > proved to be a bit of a pain. I finally got them in when I SSH'd into the > firewall invoked vi and copied the entries from a local text file to the > firewall's hosts file. There was a bit of lag but I'm not sure if it is > because my firewall has a small amount of RAM or because both boxes are > P166's. I need to figure out SCP next... > > I have a ways to go but it seems to be working just fine. The end > configuration is: > > IBM Aptiva P166 > 32 Mb RAM (would like to up this but SIMM's can be expensive) > 1 Gb HD > 1 RealTek 8139 10/100BaseT NIC > 1 SMC Ethernet 10BaseT NIC > > I can print out the resources and usage stats again if you guys are curious. > > Thanks for the help guys! > > Jarrod Major > CLUG Treasurer > Registered Linux User: #224211 > >
