On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 21:41, David Taylor wrote: > Snipped > > I have RedHat 9 on each site. I could build a couple of IPCop Boxes and > have them changed over if that would meet all the requirments. What's the > difference? > > A huge difference. IPCop is an SPI Firewall distro and the VPN config is > via GUI, not some esoteric config files that IPSec experts only understand. > > That said, you should look at IPCop v1.4beta for your VPN, IMHO.
I wanted to try that, but couldn't find the download. Pointers? > The beta version allows for a blue interface, designated for wireless. > Chuck an access point on the blue, plug in the mac address and the blue > goes to red, but not green by default. > For VPN, yes it is a little bit tricky with IPCop for beginners, but a damn > sight better than manual config. It does a two node VPN very well. I do > not have it going with more than two nodes, but did not try that hard as > the GUI does not allow for that AFAIK. Remember that right stands for Red, > and left for Local network, and you are set in IPCop. There is a > surprising amount of support and extras for IPCop when you go looking for > it. Like anything, you need to play in a LAB environment before. > > Ciao, Dave
