[clug-talk] IPCop upgrade

[Dave Watkins]

Hi All,

As a relative  newcomer to the Linux\OS Community I started of using 
IPC-op 142. Earlier this week I installed an IPCop 1.4.8 box with a few 
add-ons. I've added a URL filter, proxy server and a couple of add--ons 
that add nice but unessential features. When completed I had a box that 
functioned as a firewall, proxy server with individual user 
authentication and logging, as well as a URL filter with a base 
blacklist and user editable white\blacklist as well as domain 
allow\blocking. BTW, the proxy can work in both transparent or 
non-transparent mode.

When I set up my first IPCop box it was a difficult task for me even 
though I had all the instructions handy. This was a "Dave" thing. Call 
it exam anxiety I guess. Anyway by Ver 1.4.8 I have no problem slapping 
a box together in an evening and dropping it into it's new home in the 
morning.

IPCop, for me, is a useful tool that I still have a lot to learn about. 
More work with the different rules is next on my plan. As well as 
getting an "Orange-as-Green" add-on to work. This add-on changes the 
Orange interface into another Green while preventing communication 
between the Orange and Green networks.

A couple of questions:

1. How\Is it possible to transfer a list of users and their passwords 
from an old box to a new one?

2. Can the addition of users\passwords be accomplished "en masse" from a 
pre-compiled list or spreadsheet. The GUI used to enter individual users 
that are required to authenticate thorough the IPCop box prior to being 
permitted access to the Internet requires the following fields:
Username, Password, ConfirmPassword, and UserType.
dwatkins, mypassword, mypassword, Extended
Obviously a way to just drop this info into a file somewhere is a 
simpler than entering each one individually.

3. Anyone got the "Orange-as-Green" Mod working?

BTW, this is running on a P400 MHz box with 512 RAM and a 40GB HDD. CD 
and FDD have been removed.

Just some observations and questions,

Dave Watkins



Robert Lewko wrote:

>On September 14, 2005 08:35 am, Jarrod Major wrote:
>  
>
>>Hey Travis, long time no chat...
>>
>>On Wednesday 14 September 2005 2:26 am, Travis Rousseau wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>What did you upgrade from?
>>>      
>>>
>>I was hoping nobody was going to ask. I wasn't paying attention to the
>>version number before before I upgraded and I just recently chucked out the
>>install disc. It was like 1.3.x I believe. <shrug>
>>    
>>
>Hey, I have a box that still has a 1.2 on it.  All its doing is NAT, so why 
>upgrade if its still working?
>
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