I agree with Kevin on this one. In your situation, IPCop is probably not necessary.
I recommend IPCop, or a similar router/firewall, to people who either a) have a number of workstations connecting to the internet (i.e an office environment), or b) are hosting public servers. You can use a Linksys or DLink router in these situations, but their capabilities are more limited, and are not suited for these environments. But, for a home network of just one or two computers, without any public servers, then these devices are suitable. In this case, replacing the router/firewall with IPCop is probably a moot point. The one thing that IPCop does "out of the box" is traffic logging, and it can also be configured to log intrusion attempts. But, there are other tools that can do the same thing. IPCop just packages such tools for ease of use. If you are using Suse or another mainstream distro (I belive you're using Libranet), then you can use the installation method of that distro to install Snort and some log analysis tools. My thoughts..... Shawn On Tuesday 02 November 2004 08:35, Michael Walters wrote: > Hello All, > > I was looking at IP cop pdf, and see that it is intended to be on all the > time unless there is a power failure and then is set to reboot when the > power comes on. Is there any point in say, trying it out for a day and > seeing what attacks on the network are reaching the red zone? I do not want > to have any of my computers permanently running 24 hours a day because > electricity is expensive. > > Do I need a firewall like IP cop between my desk top computer and the > Internet when I usually shut my computer down right after I use it, and > rarely have my computer on for more than four hours at a time? Indeed, most > of the time I have my computer on for an hour or less a day. > > I am connected to the net through a four port router to an adsl modem. > Again, do I really need to use a firewall like IP cop, and is there any > point in trying it out? > > If any of you think it would be well worth while to try out IP Cop, I > would take my firewall, a key board, and my firewall monitor to an install > fest, (and the IP Cop CD of course). However I would need a ride, and I > would like to follow the instructions myself at my own pace so that I > understand them. When I watched the installation of IP Cop a couple of > times at a couple of other install fests the process went by too fast for > me to absorb. > > Regards, > > Michael Walters > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
