IPCop is a Linux distribution which aims to provide a simple-to-manage firewall appliance based on PC hardware. IPCop is a stateful firewall built on the Linux netfilter framework.
Originally a fork of the SmoothWall Linux firewall,[2] the projects are developed independently, and have now diverged significantly.
IPCop includes a simple, user managed update mechanism to install security updates when required.
Development
IPCop is developed, in traditional open source style, by a diverse development group spread across the Internet at large. CD-ROM images for the installation CD are distributed via a network of mirrors. Support websites are maintained in English, French, German and Dutch. IPCop's user interface is available in 35 languages.
Version 1.4.0 was released in 2004, based on the LFS distribution and a 2.4 kernel, offering an updated user interface and a number of additional language options. This version is no longer supported with updates or bugfixes.
The current stable branch is 2.0.X, released in 2011, after three years of development. There is a new installer, and a new User Interface, with a number of former addons incorporated into IPCop itself. The new features and changes are outlined here.
Although not an official part of IPCop, there are many addons, some based on the addon server, that add additional functionality to IPCop, such as advanced QoS, e-mail virus checking, traffic summary, extended interfaces for controlling the proxy, and many more.[3][4][5][6]
Awards
- Infoworld Magazine Bossie award for innovation in Open Source, 2007[7]
See also
- Daftar/Tabel -- router or firewall distributions
External links
- The IPCop Homepage
- Addons for IPCop Firewall
- (French) Tutoriel complet IPCop vervion 2.0.0 MAX-IPCop
- P2P-blocking addons for IPCop
- A transparent virus and spam filtering IPCop Addon for POP3, SMTP, HTTP and FTP - Copfilter
- Banish - Simply block access by IP, CIDR, Domain and MAC Addresses
- VPN with IPcop in a Windows network
- IPCop Screenshots
- English Support Site
- (Italian) IPCop Italia - Community italiana dedicata a IPCop
- (German) German Support Site
- (Indonesian) Indonesia Support Site
- How to set up IPCop in a virtual machine
- Building and IPCop Firewall Part 1
- Building and IPCop Firewall w/ Copfilter Part 2
- (German) IPCop v1.4.15 with Addons: Advanced Proxy, BOT, Connection Scheduler, Net-Traffic, PPTPD Server, SysInfo GUI, UPS Server, URL Filter, Zerina (German)
- (German) FreiesMagazin "IPCop - the bad packets stop here" Article about IPCop (German)
- RaqCop is IPCop tweaked to run on Sun Cobalt Raq hardware
References
- ^ http://www.ipcop.org/2.0.0/en/install /html/preparation-architectures.html
- ^ IPCop forked from SmoothWall GPL 0.9.9 in late 2001.
- ^ IPCop Addons
- ^ PC Pro Magazine Review
- ^ Building and IPCop Firewall Part 1
- ^ Building and IPCop Firewall w/ Copfilter Part 2
- ^ Infoworld Magazine Bossie award for innovation in Open Source, 2007
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