On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 18:45, Rick Kunath wrote: > > > Aron; IPCOP or Smoothwall 2.0 should be fine. I don't know > > > if IPCOP allows you to do remote management of the > > > firewall, > > Yes, IPcop does allow remote management of the firewall. > > I have just such a setup as you diagrammed, and it is running on some pretty > old hardware. You don't need a CD-ROM drive except for the install, and need > a floppy drive only for firewall configuration backups. I remove the keyboard > and monitor after I get IPcop installed, and the rest can be administered > either locally or remotely via a web interface or ssh. > > I am currently running it on a P133 with 32 megs of ram and a 1.2 GB hard > drive. It can easily saturate my 2Mbps incoming connection, and because the > green-side NIC is a 100Tx card, I get over 80Mbps speeds from the firewall's > transparent cache into any of my workstations. > > You won't need the third NIC for use as you describe. > > I would get a switch instead of a hub, though. Since traffic on a switch > isn't routed onto every port, you won't see speed decreases in your browsing > if you are doing, say, a backup or transfer between two other machines on > your local network segment. And a switch really isn't that much more money. > > IPcop is in active development and has a really friendly and helpful user base > and mailing list. It's also real easy to set up and get going. I have used it > since the original fork, and can say nothing but good things about it and > it's community of users. > > I am just a satisfied user and am not associated with the group or the > developers. > > Rick Kunath Hi, I wonder if you can help me figure out how to use ipcop with a verizon dsl connection. I'v tried twice to sub to the ipcop list, but haven't got a confirmation. The modem is a westell b90-210015-04. I'm currently using mnf on a mdk9.1 installation, and a dsl pppoe connection. Haven't been able to get it to work with ipcop or smoothwall. Thanks Dan
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