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Aug
06/09
Introduction of Copfilter for IPCop
Last Updated on Thursday, 6 August 2009 12:00
Written by Reko Srowako
Thursday, August 6th, 2009

copfilterThe main objective of Copfilter is to provide a free and easy to use solution to filter and scan traffic
from any unsecure network, such as the Internet, viruses and spam. It was designed
as a preconfigured and easy to install addon for IPCop firewall opensource

Copfilter is a set of different software opensource traffic filtering and custom tools designed to work
seamlessly together. All included proxies filter traffic transparently, which means that no client reconfiguration is necessary. link“>(more…)

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Jul
30/09
Firewalls IPCop of Linux
Last Updated on Thursday, 30 July 2009 04:17
Written by Reko Srowako
Thursday, July 30th, 2009

ipcopFirewalls are necessary for computers if we connect to internet. There are different kinds of firewalls how the methods work and check the incoming information. At the same time the firewalls let the outgoing ports open. It gives security for our computer and protects it from the system mistakes as well. For personal computers it can be enough and useful but maybe not for networks.
Linux uses iptables filter to give stronger protection and security. It’s a basic software in Linux packages. We can determine that exactly how we would like to check the incoming traffic with this program. We can define the criteria for each port services and we can define our own strict rules for our incoming traffic.
For network’s security level there are several distributions for firewalls. IPCop is one of them. It’s only for security. We need a computer on which IPCop is running and there are some basic activities like framework, and connection to network routing. link“>(more…)

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