Anyone Else a Fan of IPCOP?

[guytheninja]

I was just wondering who used or is a fan of IPCOP here.

I use the IPCOP distro as my home router and I have to admit that I think that distro is the best thing since sliced bread.

www.ipcop.org

I run ipcop on an ancient computer as well. The Computer has a Cyrix MII 300 CPU, 192 MB of Ram, and a 3 Gig hard drive. I've heard that you can go all the way down to a pentium 100mhz with using no addons.

http://www.ipcop.org/index.php?module=pnWikka&tag=IPCopAddons

However, IPCOP says you can go down to a 386 with 32MB of ram and a 300MB hard drive

http://www.ipcop.org/1.4.0/en/quickstart/html/requirements.html

I have an addon that tells me how much traffic has gone through the router per month. I have three networks (Red, Green, and Orange[DMZ]). I have the squid proxy enabled, and internal ssh access.

Also, you can patch the distro very easily, and it tells you when new patches are available.

I was just curious if you guys use IPCOP or similar distros because I'm sold :D.

[computoman]

I like ipcop and use it for small biz clients, but since i have third party firmware for my own routers is not a priority anymore. I have a spare p1 with ipcop i was using, but probably need to reinstall it from scratch with the latest version.

[guytheninja]

What type of firmware are you referring to and what type of routers?

[computoman]

There are about five to ten major firmware distros available. They will not work on all routers. dd-wrt runs on the most routers Last I heard. My brother runs dd-wrt on his Cisco Linksys wrt54gl. We were using dd-wrt on a Cisco Linksys wrt554gl, but I bricked it trying to upgrade it. After unbricking it and restoring to original updated firmware, I ended up temporarily putting tomato on it. On my other router a Buffalo whr-g125, we run tomato, but may change to something else. I have as a backup an Airlink101 ar430w setup with dd-wrt. I have a second one still with original firmware, but I might put openwrt or make an experimental interceptor and or a pineapple (of Hak5 fame). Converting those require a redboot install. We also use a pentium II secondary firewall with openwrt diskimage sometimes. Great for training purposes. Dedicated routers are more energy efficient.

[dam7ri]

Before IPCOP, Patrick Norton used to advocate SmoothWall, which I have tried. I don't know if a comparison between the two has been done yet, but I'd like to see one.

[computoman]

There are actually several to consider. ipcop, smoothwall. monowall, clarkconnect, endian, astaro, vyatta, shorewall, ebox, and pfsense.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SmoothWall
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPCop
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PfSense

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=free+firewall++comparison+ipcop+smoothwall&aq=f&aqi=&fp=82e34627c46f57f4


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[guytheninja]

There are about five to ten major firmware distros available. They will not work on all routers. dd-wrt runs on the most routers Last I heard. My brother runs dd-wrt on his Cisco Linksys wrt54gl. We were using dd-wrt on a Cisco Linksys wrt554gl, but I bricked it trying to upgrade it. After unbricking it and restoring to original updated firmware, I ended up temporarily putting tomato on it. On my other router a Buffalo whr-g125, we run tomato, but may change to something else. I have as a backup an Airlink101 ar430w setup with dd-wrt. I have a second one still with original firmware, but I might put openwrt or make an experimental interceptor and or a pineapple (of Hak5 fame). Converting those require a redboot install. We also use a pentium II secondary firewall with openwrt diskimage sometimes. Great for training purposes. Dedicated routers are more energy efficient.

dd wrt and tomato sound rather interesting. I used to have some Linksys routers (a very long time ago), but I stopped buying those, and I decided to use IPCOP instead. The main reason is because IPCOP never crashes or goes down (well unless the cable company drops the service). The linksys router had to be rebooted at least once a month. Also, the logs were minimal.

But if there is a linux distro for routers --- I am interested.

[computoman]

You might look at openwrt. You can set the amount of logging done. Source code from linux apps have been recompiled for the routers such as asterisk and etc. I and my brother have never had a problem with my linksys routers except when the isp has problems.

[dam7ri]

dd wrt and tomato sound rather interesting. I used to have some Linksys routers (a very long time ago), but I stopped buying those, and I decided to use IPCOP instead. The main reason is because IPCOP never crashes or goes down (well unless the cable company drops the service). The linksys router had to be rebooted at least once a month. Also, the logs were minimal.

But if there is a linux distro for routers --- I am interested.

IPCOP, Smoothwall, m0n0wall, pfSense, and a few other Linux/BSD distros are designed to run on computers (turning them into routers), not consumer routers. As far as router-based firmware, all I know of is OpenWRT, but that only works with certain versions of a specific model of a Linksys router (I think it is the WRT54G).

[computoman]

openwrt, dd-wrt and others will actually run on a x86 based box with the correct firmware. Been there done that. I have a Pentium II dedicated for doing just that. Great for training purposes. if router manufacturers had not cut back the memory on their routers, I would almost be sure you could run ipcop recompiled on one.