In this second part of IPCop firewall tutorial, we’ll go over IDS(snort) and Iptraf addon. I consider Ipcop a robust firewall, and one of its main feature is the ability to detect attacks as they happen on the network (Snort), also another good feature of IPCop is the addons, through addons you can easy install lots of application, that do not come included in the IPCop installation, like Iptraf, Dansguardian, Openvpn, Asterisk among others.
In this tutorial we’ll cover some of the features and addons of IPCop:

1- Setting up IPCop’s IDS(snort).
2- Installing Iptraf addon. Read the rest of this entry »

If you want to protect your network from the internet, one of the things you need is a firewall, in this tutorial I will show you how to install ipcop firewall, for this all you need is an old pc and the free ipcop installation software. IPCop doesn’t require a lot of hardware to run, it will run on 64M of memory although I recommend at least 128M, it all depends on how many services you’re planning to run, also it doesn’t require a lot of hard drive, unless you’re planning to do a lot of logging, and web cache, and finally processor speed it’s not really that important Read the rest of this entry »