[CentOS] proxy server - ipcop vs CentOS

[Johnny Hughes]

On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 10:37 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 13:17 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 12:53 -0400, David Nalley wrote:
> > > >-----Original Message-----
> > > >From: centos-bounces at centos.org on behalf of Craig White
> > > >Sent: Wed 8/16/2006 11:22 AM
> > > >To: CentOS mailing list
> > > >Subject: [CentOS] proxy server - ipcop vs CentOS
> > > > 
> > > >I have purchased a used Compaq DL360 which I was going to use as a proxy
> > > >server. Presently, we are using a cheap box with ipcop which is working
> > > >fine but it didn't have much RAM (64MB), etc.
> > 
> > IPCop itself doesn't need much. I have it installed on 3 machines,
> > "lowest" is an AMD 5x86 100MHz (equiv to a 486DX?) with 32MB. A DX/2
> > 66MHz aptiva with 32MB and a 200MHz Pentium with 64MB (I know, so
> > wastful... just for now). The slowest (66MHz) with 3C509 half-duplex ISA
> > NICS gets 477K bytes/sec off my cable modem. The fastest gets me almost
> > 700KB (670, 680, ... depending on source site).
> > 
> > But I don't run anything but IPCop on those units. I have no idea what
> > will happen if you start running other services on the firewall.
> > 
> ----
> I like ipcop too - this new box I am going to use has 512MB RAM and at
> least 2 built-in NIC's but I am thinking of a heavy reliance upon squid
> and dansguardian and I am thinking that I will get a much more versatile
> firewall/proxy server using CentOS/squid/dansguardian than by using
> ipcop and using their squid and trying to bring in dansguardian into the
> mix - but I don't know...which is why I asked.
> 
> I am using ipcop with a few clients and it works fine - even with lesser
> hardware but then, I am not exactly pushing it - which my previous
> experience with squid is that it functions better with more resources
> (RAM/HD) and toss in dansguardian, I think I have enough hardware to
> run.
> 
> Craig
> 

Craig,

I use IPCOP on all my border routers at my client sites ... with the
openvpn plugin.  CentOS can certainly also be a router if you set it up
that way, but I normally use IPCOP.

I don't think there are many tools that are going to make management as
easy as it is on IPcop ... though, there has not been much website
activity there lately.

Thanks,
Johnny Hughes


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