IP-Cop Firerwall was RE: [PCTECH] I learned something about certificatesandencrypting filesystems the other day ...

["James Lundy" <jlundy@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bob:

When you mentioned IPCop I perked up because I have a Cisco 1600 that needs
to be replaced, and therefore, have been looking at other alternatives .
They want $2000 to upgrade using Cisco.  

IPCop looks to be usable except I can not find any definitive guide lines on
capacity.  I have about 75 users on DSL just for e-mail.  I need to add VPN
for two internal PCs to outside third party insurance billing providers.  

Do you have any thoughts that you would share?  

I like the ease of configuration that IPCop has compared to Cisco.  


-----Original Message-----
From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Bob Crothers
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 11:44 PM
To: 'PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users'
Subject: RE: [PCTECH] I learned something about certificatesandencrypting
filesystems the other day ...


Ken,

Not trying to start a religious discussion here (but I fear we have), but it
still sounds like the fat man preaching about the evils of high calorie/high
fat diets while eating an ice cream cone!

And yes.  My firewall (IPCop) is based on a Linux derivative...but it is
packaged so well, you don't have to actually know anything about Linux.  And
I've recently loaded RH 8 into a virtual machine (using VMWare) for
experimentation purposes.