RE: [PCTECH] ANNOUNCE: IPCop 1.4.0 Final Release!

["Dan Bale" <dbale@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, Bob!

> How often is the firewall software on your router updated?

Is this the firmware?  There *are* firmware updates, tho the manual says to
apply them "only when necessary".  ???  I thought the router firewall does
one thing and does it well: It does the IP address translation to make the
PCs behind the firewall "invisible" to the net.  Assuming that's the case,
what is there to upgrade?

Of course, the router firewall only blocks traffic coming in.  (I learned
that here, thanks to you guys!)  Does IPCop police the outgoing stuff as
well (phone homes, spyware, etc.)?

> Does your router firewall have an Orange zone for your servers?
> How about a Blue zone for your wireless network?  And I suspect a wireless
> network is in most of our future...both at work and at home.

No servers and no wireless.  As for the future, well you're talking to a guy
who just upgraded to Win98.  Nuff said?  Anyway, I've been burned before for
buying something that I wasn't able to use, for example, a USB device back
when I was still only on Win95, and I watched prices steadily decline on the
device before I finally got on Win98.

> If the router firewall works with IP Cop, then use both.
> Otherwise I'd turn off the router firewall and use IPCop.

Um, I'm hoping I'll still be able to use the router part of the hardware.
I've got three PC's that I want to have internet access in our house.  Is
that going to depend on Gigafast, or is that fairly standard these days?

db

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx / Bob Crothers
> Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 7:33 PM
>
> > Should I consider the IPCop solution to be more... robust? ...
> secure? than
> > my current Gigafast firewall/router?  Or, perhaps better, IPCop
> complements
> > a firewall/router?
> >
>
> How often is the firewall software on your router updated?
>
> If some new hole is discovered, how fast will they fix it?
>
> Does your router firewall have an Orange zone for your servers?
>
> How about a Blue zone for your wireless network?  And I suspect a wireless
> network is in most of our future...both at work and at home.
>
> If the router firewall works with IP Cop, then use both.
> Otherwise I'd turn off
> the router firewall and use IPCop.  Of course, that's my opinion
> and worth what you are paying for it <g>.
>
> And you don't really access anything from the IPCop box.
> Everything is via your browser on your PC inside the firewall.