RE: I broke my firewall

Damien,
        I feel your pain <g>! I have, more than once stubbed a toe messing
with a working/production system. While this might not work for you, as this
looks like a small dedicated firewall box, I have found that often you can
set up a Virtual Machine and by taking a snapshot you can play or explore
all you like and if something goes awry all you have messed up is your
virtual box. In many cases someone might not have the resources to run a
real test system but in many cases a Virtual box can suffice for testing
application upgrades, patch testing or add-ons ..... whatever. Since there
are several VM offerings that are being offered at no cost, Xen and VMWare
are two of the better known, it might be worth investigating. I use VMware
on a Linux platform to test various windows applications and it has
certainly been a time saver. I also run VMware on an XP platform with
multiple VM's to play with as well......... BSOD...who cares!!! <g>

Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: aklug-bounce@aklug.org [mailto:aklug-bounce@aklug.org] On Behalf Of
Damien Hull
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 9:50 PM
To: aklug@aklug.org
Subject: I broke my firewall

When will I learn? Never, never mess with a working system. Play on test
equipment.

I tried installing copfilter into my IPCop firewall. I have Internet
access but no web gui to IPCop. I can't make any changes or pay with
copfilter.

Looks like I'll be installing IPCop at the Friday meeting. 1.4.13 is
out. This is a two part process for me.

   1. Install to hard drive
         1. upload compact flash script
         2. Connect USB compact flash reader
         3. put in 1G compact flash
         4. Run the compact flash script
   2. Put compact flash back in compact flash to IDE adapter in firewall
         1. Run "setup"

Fun! ;-)
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Received on Thu Jan 18 20:11:59 2007