PKCS12 to PEM

The Zerina (OpenVPN) addon for IPCop is an excellent VPN addon.  One thing it does for simplicity is the keys are compiled into a pkcs12 (*.P12) file, which contains the Certificate Authority, the Certificate, and the Key for authentication.  Which is great if you are...

Backing up IPCop

I recently replaced my IPCop firewall computer and had a perfect chance to test my backups. I like to customize my IPCop install so I have the Advanced Proxy, URL Filter, Update Accelerator, Block out Traffic, ntop, Zerina (OpenVPN), Firewall Logs (Pie Charts for...

IPCop Update Accelerator

I had run out of space on / on the IPCop box. The installer sets /var/logs as the largest partition because once you install IPCop its supposed to sit forever and just log stuff. So when Update Accelerator installed it stored the update to /home/httpd/html/updatecache...

Move IPCop Update Accelerator Data

The update Accelerator keeps everything under /home/httpd/html/updatecache. Then it puts it under Adobe, Linux, Microsoft, Symantec, Avast and such. The real thing is that if your needing to transfer everything from one computer to another and across the Internet,...

IPCop QoS

I had messed with the QoS settings on IPCop but never noticed a difference. I had set port 80 to low because our other SSH or VPN needed priority. Anyways… again never made a differnce. Turns out because I had the Proxy turned on and in transparent mode having...

IPCop & Large Networks

I’m starting to test IPCop on a network of 400+ computers. I’ve installed many of the addons and am very pleased with the results. Its managing everything perfectly. IPCop 1.4.18 Advanced Proxy URL Filter Update Accelerator Calamaris Block Outgoing Traffic...