Re: I broke my firewall

Running from compact flash allows one to "dd" a backup image. This only
works if you actually take the time to create the backup. My firewall is
off-line at the moment. I obviously didn't create a backup image.

This is why my office/home domain is "testing-linux.com". I spend most
of my time testing, breaking and retesting things.

Dan Wolf wrote:
> 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 Sat Jan 20 12:31:58 2007