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Tip: Closing Borders with Open Source |
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Wednesday, 13 December 2006 |
Excerpt from the book Configuring IPCop Firewalls: Closing Borders with Open Source by Barrie Dempster and James Eaton-Lee. Published by Packt Publishing and reprinted with permission. All rights reserved. IPCop is a firewall for the Small Office/Home Office (SOHO) network, which is extremely easy to use and is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). This excerpt outlines a few common methods of deploying IPCop and the motivation behind these topologies along with descriptions of some of the featrues you can deploy.
IPCop is a firewall for the Small Office/Home Office (SOHO) network, which is extremely easy to use and is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It provides most of the basic features that you would expect a modern firewall to have, and what is most important is that it sets this all up for you in a highly automated and simplified way. It's very easy to get an IPCop installation up and running and takes very little time. For features like those in IPCop, you would usually have to pay for a high-end firewall system or string something together using a collection of other tools. IPCop takes some of those powerful Linux tools and creates a pre-built package for you. IPCop was created to fill a void in the market, where users with small networks need some features that only large networks can afford, as far as expertise or money is concerned.
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