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Hello and welcome to Mike's Tech Blog. These tech notes are often the result of my attempts to set up or install something. Often after many hours of searching the internet, and collecting bits and pieces of information

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IPcop
Get IPcop's VPN To Work With Vista and Windows 7
Networking - IPcop

How to get IPcop's VPN to work with Vista and Windows 7In a previous article, I showed how to set up IPcop's VPN using Zerina for computers running windows XP. However since Microsoft released Vista, and later Windows 7,

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VPN with an IPcop firewall in a windows XP network
Networking - IPcop

I have been using IPcop for quite a while, and I am rather VPN with IPcoppleased with it. One of the beauties of it is that you can take a PC that most people consider useless, and make a great firewall out of it. I have successfully insalled IPcop on a 500 mHz PC with no problems. I have heard of people using even slower PC's as well. Additionally, there is a nice add-in, Zerina, that makes setting up a VPN easier.

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IPcop Add-on's
Networking - IPcop

IPcop has various addons. Although its a great firewall, it seems to me that these addons should be incorporated into the basic IPcop package. One such package is Banish, which allows you to block web sites by IP, CIDR, Domain name, and MAC addresses. Installation instructions are straightforward, and can be found here.

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How to install IPcop Firewall On An Old Computer
Networking - IPcop

I have been using IPcop for a while. It's a great linux (and free) firewall. I don't know if there are better firewalls out there, but it seems to serve my purposes and those of my employers and customers.

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