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With Ipcop , is there any additional modules needed to get it working with iburst ? or how did u guys do it ..
 
mr waterworth -

I was using smoothwall (codebase parent of IPCOP) untill I was recommended ipcop by another insightful iburster on this forum.

on my end, with bryanston water tower, ipcop works fine, just the iburst service itself sucks - not a problem on my end. The problem is getting better though.

Anyway - what you need - what I recommend -
i586 or greater with 64mb+ RAM
tiny old hard drive (using a compactflash card is way cooler though)
2x ethernet cards (I like realtek 8139too cards, most PCI 3com cards are also great, check my spelling on the realtek though)

Setup the box with configuration GREEN + RED, red NOT being dialup/isdn. the installer should automatically configure the ethernet cards for you. one other confusing thing for me was setting up the RED interface - choose PPPoE. PPPoE not static or dynamic or others, I think.

What also confused me - I did not think that iBurst used PPP protocol for dialup - I thought it was DSL and dial-up that only used this protocol. not the case. iBurst also.

make sure you plug the right cat5 cables into the right NIC's - I had this issue.

access the box at http://192.168.1.xxx:441 with the password you chose on startup

If you like to access via ssh you need to enable it via the web interface, remember the ssh port is not the default one - try ssh ipcop -p 222

then click network -> dialup ->
create NEW INTERFACE on PPPoE.
username + passwd + service name, etc.

easy as that. return to home and click connect if you did not choose a persistent connection. away you go...
 
Cool thanx..

I found my problem anyway.

You need 2 Ether cads . You cannot run the iburst unit through the same ethernet card.

I will leave my old linux box running till I get another setup for IP-Cop.
 
what you say ?

>> You need 2 Ether cads . You cannot run the iburst unit through the same ethernet card.

as I stated -

>> 2x ethernet cards (I like realtek 8139too cards, most PCI 3com cards are also great, check my spelling on the realtek though)

something i said... ?
 
DaveBuchanan1337 said:
what you say ?

>> You need 2 Ether cads . You cannot run the iburst unit through the same ethernet card.

as I stated -

>> 2x ethernet cards (I like realtek 8139too cards, most PCI 3com cards are also great, check my spelling on the realtek though)

something i said... ?
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Yeah true lol . But I was hoping it would treat the ppp connection as a seperate interface .. No such luck lol
 
IPCop machine spec

Hi there,

Just managed to figure IPCop out. Got everything up and running with iBurst and I am able to make the iBurst connection. Couple of questions tho:

1> This seems to be slowing me down slightly. I don't know if it is my IpCop PC specs that might be the problem:

Pentium 1
96MB RAM
2x Realtek NIC's (Detected by IPCop automatically)
1 Intel Intelligent Hub
2Gb HDD

(Best I could throw together with all my spare parts that I had lying around)

I am just a little bit worried that the machine is too slow, and is therefore possible causing the lag? What do u guys think?

Also worried because even the IPCop web administration pages are taking a while to come up. Which they shouldn't I don't think being on a local network?

2> Or is that iBurst is just fscking slow tonight (cause iburst.co.za & standardbank.co.za are still pretty quick)?

Cheers
 
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Hi rudids

That box should be sufficient to do the normal NATting process etc.. They administration pages may be slow due to the low spec, but that is to be expected. (it shouldn't effect the NATting)
 
Mayh3m said:
Hi rudids

That box should be sufficient to do the normal NATting process etc.. They administration pages may be slow due to the low spec, but that is to be expected. (it shouldn't effect the NATting)
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Hey there, thats what I thought. Just wanted to double check with guys that have used IPCop previously.

Cheers :)
 
ruddis & mayhem -

If you compare the performance of the HTTP administrative GUI between ipcop and smoothwall, ipcop is far slower due to the fact that it is encrypted (port 441)
 
DaveBuchanan1337 said:
ruddis & mayhem -

If you compare the performance of the HTTP administrative GUI between ipcop and smoothwall, ipcop is far slower due to the fact that it is encrypted (port 441)
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That I doubt, especially when you consider that SWe2 also uses https on 441, although it does allow for http on 81.
 
ic -
when I point firefox to http://192.168.1.1:81 it is redirected to https://192.168.1.1:445

NMAP returns

Interesting ports on jkeX-X.payu.yebo.co.za (192.168.1.1):
PORT STATE SERVICE
53/tcp open domain
81/tcp open hosts2-ns
222/tcp open rsh-spx
445/tcp open microsoft-ds
MAC Address: 00:40:95:32:23:FF (R.p.t. Intergroups Int'l)
No exact OS matches for host

which I find strange - 81 is open. Perhaps I am a bit out of my depth with HTTP.

also, the last smoothwall that I used was Orient - which I think is quite dated.
 
I don't know if it is my IpCop PC specs that might be the problem
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Well, I've never really used IpCop, I'm a smoothwall dieHard, since they based on the same architecture, I'm sure the same status pages exist, I know smoothwall has a status page on http://xxx.xxx:81/cgi-bin/advstatus.cgi, that will let you know all about the ram stats, and whats available. For more detailed info, go to a shell, and try the default linux commands:
free (this will tell you about free mem resources)
top (Cpu / process/mem monitor)

I would recommend leaving top unning and try connect a machine up to a p2p engine, if you see things start maxing out, thats where your probs lie!
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On another note, If anyone wants an addition to smoothwall, I've hacked it slightly, I'm sure Iburst users have the same woes as Sentech users with really cr@ppy signal, That being CONSISTENT DISCONNECTIONS!!

Since neither smoothwall or ipC0p have a dialondemand, the 5 minute reboot thing Sux (5 minutes is too long, and reboot takes another 2 ), so If anyones also annoyed by it, drop me a pm, and I'll help you with a little script to change that. On my smoothwall, It now checks for connection every minute, If connection doesn't exist, dials up again, so no more 5minute cr@p, or un-necessary reboots.
If a lot of guys want it, I'll package it as a mod, with an addition to the Web interface, etc.
 
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dorris said:
Since neither smoothwall or ipC0p have a dialondemand, the 5 minute reboot thing Sux (5 minutes is too long, and reboot takes another 2 )......
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I'm not sure about smoothwall, but version 1.4.2 of IPCop does have a dialondemand option. Not only that but it has a "Persistent" option which allows you to set the reconnection "Hold" on "Wait" time to anything you like.
This works well for ICCopy. That being said - over the last week I have been diconnected very little.
 
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