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IPCop v1.4.21 Administration Manual

Chris Clancey

Harry Goldschmitt

John Kastner

Eric Oberlander

Peter Walker

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.

17 June 2009

Revision History
Revision 0.1.0 (beta) 29 Dec 2001 CW
Forward by Charles Williams
Revision 1.2.0 10 Jan 2003 RW
1.2.0 revisions
Revision 1.3.0 4 May 2003 HG
1.3.0 revisions
Revision 1.4.0 30 August 2004 CC, HG, JK, EO, PW
1.4.0 revisions
Revision 1.4.10 13 December 2005 HG, EO
1.4.10 revisions
Revision 1.4.12 30 April 2008 HG, EO
1.4.12 revisions
Revision 1.4.21 17 June 2009 EO
1.4.21 revisions

Table of Contents

Preface
1. Rights and Disclaimers
2. Forward
1. Project Leader's Introduction
1.1. What Is IPCop?
1.2. Partial List of Features
1.3. Acknowledgements
2. Administration and Configuration
2.1. Home Administrative Window
2.2. System Web Pages
2.2.1. Updates
2.2.2. Passwords
2.2.3. SSH Access
2.2.4. GUI Settings
2.2.5. Backup Web Page
2.2.6. Shutdown Web Page
2.3. Status Menu
2.3.1. System Status
2.3.2. Network Status
2.3.3. System Graphs
2.3.4. Traffic Graphs
2.3.5. Proxy Graphs
2.3.6. Connections
2.4. Network Menu
2.4.1. Dialup
2.4.2. Upload
2.4.3. Modem
2.4.4. External Aliases Administrative Web Page
2.5. Services Menu
2.5.1. Web Proxy Administrative Web Page
2.5.2. DHCP Administrative Web Page
2.5.3. Dynamic DNS Administrative Web Page
2.5.4. Edit Hosts Administrative Web Page
2.5.5. Time Server Administrative Web Page
2.5.6. Traffic Shaping Administrative Web Page
2.5.7. Intrusion Detection System Administrative Web Page
2.6. Firewall Menu
2.6.1. What traffic is allowed between Interfaces?
2.6.2. User Customization
2.6.3. Port Forwarding Administrative Web Page
2.6.4. External Access Administrative Web Page
2.6.5. DMZ Pinholes Administrative Web Page
2.6.6. Blue Access Administrative Web Page
2.6.7. Firewall Options Administrative Web Page
2.7. VPNs Menu
2.7.1. Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
2.7.2. Methods of Authentication
2.7.3. Global Settings
2.7.4. Connection Status and Control
2.8. Logs Menu
2.8.1. Introduction
2.8.2. Log Settings Administrative Web Page
2.8.3. Log Summary Page
2.8.4. Proxy Logs Page
2.8.5. Firewall Logs Page
2.8.6. Intrusion Detection System Log Page
2.8.7. System Log Page
A. GNU Free Documentation License
A.1. 0. Preamble
A.2. 1. Applicability and Definitions
A.3. 2. Verbatim Copying
A.4. 3. Copying In Quantity
A.5. 4. Modifications
A.6. 5. Combining Documents
A.7. 6. Collections of Documents
A.8. 7. Aggregation With Independent Works
A.9. 8. Translation
A.10. 9. Termination
A.11. 10. Future Revisions of This License

List of Figures

2.1. Home Page
2.2. Home Page - Ethernet Connection
2.3. Home Page - Modem Connection
2.4. SSH Access and SSH Host Keys
2.5. GUI Settings
2.6. Backup
2.7. Shutdown and Schedule Reboots
2.8. PPP Settings
2.9. Upload Modem Drivers
2.10. Modem Settings
2.11. External Aliases Settings
2.12. Additional DHCP Options
2.13. Add a new fixed lease
2.14. List of fixed leases
2.15. Current dynamic leases
2.16. Dynamic DNS Settings
2.17. Add a Host Input Screen
2.18. List of current hosts
2.19. Network Time Server Settings
2.20. Update the time manually
2.21. Traffic Shaping Settings
2.22. Intrusion Detection Settings
2.23. IP Traffic Flow
2.24. Port Forwarding Settings
2.25. External Access Settings
2.26. Pinhole Settings
2.27. Blue Access Settings
2.28. Firewall Options
2.29. VPN Global Settings
2.30. VPN Connection status and control window: Initial View
2.31. VPN Certificate Authorities window: Initial View
2.32. VPN Connection Type Selection
2.33. VPN Host-to-Net Connection Input
2.34. VPN Net-to-Net Connection Input
2.35. VPN Authentication Input
2.36. Log Settings
2.37. Log Summary Output
2.38. Proxy Log Output
2.39. Firewall Log Output
2.40. IDS Log Output
2.41. System Log Output