[clug-talk] IPCop

[Shawn]

Installing IPCop will partition and format the hard drive as part of the 
installation process.  It is intended to be a standalone firewall (and 
works great at it).

The only way you might install IPCop in conjunction with an existing 
Linux install is to use a virtual machine for the IPCop install.  (Well, 
I'm sure there are other ways, but this is simplest I can think of)

If you want to build a firewall on your existing system, then you should 
look at Firestarter (http://www.fs-security.com/) and iptables 
(http://www.netfilter.org/projects/iptables/index.html).  The learning 
curve for iptables is a little steeper than IPCop, but it is the work 
horse that just about all Linux firewall systems are built on. 
Firestarter gives you a nice graphical tool to build the iptables rules.

Hope that helps.

Shawn


Joe Shuttleworth wrote:
> I would like to add IPCcp as a firewall. Does IPCop have to be installed to 
> it's own computer? Can I install it to the same computer (that I'm running 
> Linux on) to another hard drive?
> 
> Thanks 
> 
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