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Firewall IPCop : Services Guide

After having already presented its functions, installation and web administration interface, we will now finish our look at IPCop with the available services.

Tags : Firewall IPCop, presentation IPCop, Proxy Server, DHCP Server

Firewall IPCop : Services Guide

February 21st, 2006 - 06:00 pm ET by Mathieu D.
  1. 1 - IPCop: Reminder and Introduction
  2. 2 - IPCop : Proxy Server
  3. 3 - IPCop : DHCP Server
  4. 4 - IPCop : Dynamic DNS
  5. 5 - IPCop : Static Hosts and Time Servers
  6. 6 - IPCop : Traffic Shapping
  7. 7 - IPCop : Intrusion Detection
  8. 8 - IPCop : AdvProxy Plug-in
  9. 9 - IPCop : UrlFilter Plug-in
  10. 10 - IPCop : Conclusion
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IPCop is a complete operating system based on an optimized Linux core with the goal of assuring the security of your network. This file is intended as a follow up to the presentation and installation of the systeme and the interface and web administration files, summarizing the subjects by explaining the “services” topic and its submenus.


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In the first IPCop file we briefly touched upon the topic of Services, now we are going to go into depth on this in the order of appearance on the interface :

  • Proxy Server
A Proxy server consists primarily to fetch the requested internet pages from users and to store the results in its cache allowing the next search to this site by any user to be faster.

  •  DHCP Server
A DHCP server (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) allows an IP configuration (Address, Gateway, DNS and WINS Servers) to be automatically put into place on client machines.

  • Dynamic DNS
A DNS server is a server that associates a domain name to an IP address, Dynamic DNS plays the same role as DNS but is for dynamic IP addresses (For those that have internet connections without a fixed IP address.)

  • Static Hosts
In the event that you have servers or machines that require the same IP address to always be enforced (public or private) this function allows you to reserve and define these machines a static address.

  • Time Server
A time server provides the time and date to all the computers on a network. We can from synchronize from here to either the Internet or to the network interfaces of IPCop.

  • Traffic Shapping
Traffic shaping allows you to limit the amount of allowed traffic for each protocol, it is not totally a question of QoS (Quality of Service) but it’s going in the same direction...

  • Intrusion Detection
Based on the Snort rules, the intrusion detector repairs and blocks access to non authorized people from entering the network.


Towards the end of the file we will also look at the plug-ins for AdvProxy and UrlFilter in more detail


 
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