How to make an Ubuntu Firewall

[David Symons]

On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 06:03 +0100, dooleydotdk wrote:
> Could someone explain a newbie like me how to install IPcop. I found it
> on http://sourceforge.net/projects/ipcop/ - but how do I install it?
> What should I do; download ipcop-fcdsl-1.4.10.i386.tgz or the .iso. 
> know it may be a bit out of this topic but I still hav'nt got the
> entire installation picture i Ubuntu. Any help appriciated.

Hi,

IPCop is a distribution in itself.  You dedicate a (usually old and
otherwise unwanted) PC to it.  You download the ISO, burn it to CD, boot
off it and it will install and set itself up.

If you want to run your ubuntu PC as a firewall, as well as continuing
to use it as a workstation, then Firestarter would be one way to go.

Cheers, Dave.
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David Symons
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