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Wednesday, September 27, 2006

tinyurl.com/fjr3r [tinyurl.com/fjr3r]

Oh ya.. IPcop kicks the crap out of any consumer level thing.

Originally I had a old 2.2 kernel based router, booted up from a floppy and ran from memory. But the fans were going out on that thing and it was getting noisy and I wanted wireless and the bios on that machine (a craptastic compaq) refused to recognize my wireless card.

So I went out and bought a Linksys 'broadband wifi router'. Damn that thing was bad compared to my old Linux router. Complete crap. I had reduced network performance, bittorrent slowed down. Trying to update my gaming servers with xqf would Denial-Of-Service my own freaking router because it couldn't handle that many connections. Utter peice of garbage.

So when we wear recycling PCs at work I made sure to grab a 200mhz Dell machine and stuff it full of old 3com 100Mb nic cards.

I figured I use IPcop until I had time to build my own firewall rules using OpenBSD's stuff, but damn it impressed me. It was easy to setup and had more features then I could shake a stick at.

Now I have fast reliable internet access between multiple machines. I've added OpenVPN support so that I can connect to my local network via a tls-encrypted vpn anywere I can get HTTP access to the internet (even works over web proxies). I have a DMZ zone for wireless (much more reliable then WEP or WPA or WPA2 for security), I can setup a special zone just for internet facing servers (although I haven't done that yet) and all sorts of other stuff.

And the web interface is great.

freesco.org [freesco.org]


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