Several weeks ago I've moved away from IPCop for a while until v. 2.0 will come out of beta and have addons available. Currently running pfSense with transparent proxy / filtering for ads, spyware, porn, etc ... But you're right in choosing IPCop. There was nothing coming close to it when I factor in the way I was using it: - transparent proxy w/ advanced proxy addon - url filter addon - updates accelerator (only 1 computer would download the updates, the rest will get them locally at LAN speed) - snort + guardian addon (making snort active) - net2net vpns, road warriors und so weiter... And I had IPCop installed on 7-8 locations on ancient hardware (I've decommissioned a P120 cpu and now the oldest out of them is a Celeron Mendocino @466Mhz) Anyway, snort on IPCop 1.4.21 would no longer get its updates as that version is no longer supported. The kernel in version 2.x will obviously bring support for latest snort but it will take a while until final release and even more for addons like the ones I was using to be ported on the new release. Now I am working on setting up a CentOS 5.5 32 bit with XEN and run pfSense distribution as a VM on my home LAN. And hanging in there until I see IPCop back :) -----Original Message----- From: Ron Blizzard Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 10:12 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS or other Linux Internet Router/Gateway Thanks everyone. "Firewall" was the term I was having trouble coming up with. Now I'm overwhelmed with all the choices. I think, for someone as "green" (as in "inexperienced") as I am, something like IPCop might be an easy place to start. I'll experiment with a Pentium III I have, but will probably work towards some kind of fanless,, small computer (as suggested by another poster). I'm not sure the BSD firewalls will work for me (at this point) because I've got a couple Linux add-ins I'm thinking of using. Just to confirm. The Linksys wireless router can become a wireless switch with the firewall and router capabilities disabled. (This is a Linux version, BTW, so I'm also going to look into the firmware modifications, but I doubt I can load my programs there and am a little nervous about bricking the router). Again, thanks. -- RonB -- Using CentOS 5.5 _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos