Re: IPCop upgrade

Hi AndrewG,

Andrew Greig wrote:
> I figure it is about time I performed an upgrade on my IPCop firewall
> box.
> I have been to the IP Cop page and read the HOWTO but the links to
> the hardware compatibility page are broken.  I currently run IPCop
> 1.2 on a P100 with 24Mb RAM and an 850Mb HDD, will this cope with
> IPCop 1.4.6?

I would have thought that you were running v1.3.0.... with the patches. 
That is what I run and recommend unless you must have some of the new 
features of 1.4 such as having a BLUE wireless network.

I haven't looked closely at the IPCOP lists for about a month now as I have 
been very busy, but my understanding is that 1.4 needs greater resources 
(generally speaking) and although some optimizations have taken place, 
personally I wouldn't be installing 1.4 on anthing less than a PII machine 
with 64MB of RAM.

> Another problem I have encountered is in writing the config to a
> backup floppy, using the backup command in the Web Interface.  I
> formatted an ext2 floppy in my normal desktop machine and then
> performed the backup as recommended.  The FDD light was on and all
> the correct "writing noises" were coming from the box, but when I
> loaded the floppy into my Desktop machine to check the backup there
> was nothing on the disk.

The backup is written as a raw tar file, not to a file system on the floppy. 
If you want to extract it to the desktop machine (assuming it is running 
Linxu ;) ), then you should do the following:
  dd if=/dev/fd0 of=backup-ipcop.tar
Then you will have a tar file of the backup.

> The info on the backup page of the web interface indicated that the
> files had indeed been copied and verified, but I could not read them.

Good, see above.

> My understanding of this process is that if I successfully backup to
> the floppy then while  installing the latest version I may "restore".
> this should setup my bpalogin details as before.  Perhaps someone may
> be able to shed some light on my experiences.

Kind Regards

AndrewM

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