Comments on: HOWTO: IPCop-OpenVPN

By: Linux for Christians » Blog Archive » The Over-Committed Geek’s Firewall

Sun, 04 May 2008 02:40:40 +0000

[...] Just drop in a second network card into the machine you want to turn into a firewall and boot from the CD. After that, it is just a matter of following the on screen instructions. After install, IPCop will allow full configuration from a web-based GUI, show you metrics on Internet usage, stability and security that make the paranoid proud, drop-dead simple upgrades, Intrusion Detection, DHCP, DNS, DMZ, Port Forwarding, NAT, separate WiFi network for your in church coffee shop (with additional NIC) and other fun things. Some VPN capability is also built-in, but for the road-warrior style VPN usage that most ministries use, I’d recommend an OpenVPN plugin as an alternative that is much easier to maintain on the client side. For more information on this, check out HOWTO: IPCop-OpenVPN. [...]

By: Meissen

Meissen — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:40:38 +0000

Great VPN Howto everything works fine.

Thanks.

By: Wirgo

Wirgo — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:54:10 +0000

My VPN is working correctely, but i have a problem with the client netmask. It is 255.255.255.252 and i would like it was 255.255.255.0. I cant find where to change this setting. Thanks

By: knarF

knarF — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:38:47 +0000

Dan:
I got the same issue here, but i can’t solve it :(
If someone have fixed this, please post it.

By: Darshan

Darshan — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:07:01 +0000

Hi,
Did you add push “route ip address mask” statement to your server.conf

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:47:11 +0000

Hi all. This works great but I am having an issue….. I have a Green-Red setup and running OpenVPN. I can connect to IPCop from a client PC and even ping the internal IP address of IPCop. However, I can’t ping the server or any other item on the network.

Any help would be appreciated……

Thanks.

By: Ben May

Ben May — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 01:10:00 +0000

Great tutorial, very helpful!! THANKS

By: Greg

Greg — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 05:50:35 +0000

Hi, great tutorial. I was able to get the VPN to connect. For some reason I cannot ping anything in my green network other than the Green interface on ipcop. From inside my green network I cannot ping the VPN interfaces. I tried everything I could think of to get access to my green network but nothing works from the VPN. It connects but I cant access anything, remote desktop, web, ftp, ping, drive shares, etc. Is there something I could be missing? I have used OpenVPN with my Endian firewall and it works a bit differently, but still the same idea. I cant seem to get it to work with IpCop and Zerina. Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Thanks!

By: Sverre

Sverre — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 11:40:52 +0000

Followed your guide, workes very well, look forward to see how well it copes under full load. thanks for a good guide!

By: John

John — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 22:47:22 +0000

Hi Shane:

Heh, I guess I could add something like that. I guess I just never thought that anyone would bother to donate. :)

Glad you liked the guide.

Thanks,
John