HowtoForge: The Perfect Linux Firewall Part II -- IPCop & Copfilter | Linux Today

HowtoForge: The Perfect Linux Firewall Part II — IPCop & Copfilter

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 14, 2006

[ Thanks to Falko
Timme
for this link. ]

“This document is the second segment in a series on installing
IPCop firewall. We will be creating a ‘DMZ’ for hosting your own
web server or mail server and the Copfilter proxy for filtering
your application layer ingress and egress network traffic. This is
intended to be a rough overview on creating a IPCop firewall with
Copfilter and comes without warranty of any kind.

“Given the instructions from the previous article, you should
have a full installation of IPCop running. The current focus
remains two-fold: to get your server in the Orange (DMZ) segment of
your IPCop Network and opening up the ports on your firewall to
allow web traffic to it…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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