Software Update: IPCop 1.4

The development team behind IPCop has released version 1.4 of the program of the same name. IPCop is a Linux firewall distribution, which is mainly aimed at home users and the SoHo environment. This release has a revamped user interface, supports a lot of new hardware, has added functionality, and now works not only on the x86 platform, but also on Alphas. The full changelog looks like this:

Changes:

• Build system uses LFS (Linux from Scratch)
• new gui

New supported hardware includes:

• SCSI hardware
• PCMCIA hardware
• Speed ​​touch PPPoE
• AVM Fritz!DSL
• AVM Fritz!Card PCI 2.0
• Bewan st PCI and USB
• Conexant usb and PCI driver
• Eagle USB Driver
• Friztdsl
• Speedtouch usb PPPoE / bridged / routed IP (Rev 4.00 supported)
• Zyxel 630-11 Driver
• 3Com 3cp4218 driver

New features include:

• Support ACPIA
• Uni and Multi-processor systems
• SSP Stack Smashing Protection and libsafe
• Intrusion detection SNORT (for all interfaces)
• Traffic Shaping
• NTP Server on GREEN
• System graphs for CPU, Memory and disk
• BLUE interface for connecting Wireless APs
• X.509 VPN support (including Roadwarrior support)
• Enhancements to DHCP and Hosts editing
• Enhancements to log viewing

Supported languages ​​include:

• Cesky
• Chinese
• Latin American Spanish
• magyar
• Polski
• Portuguese
• Portuguese-Brasil
• Romanian
• Suomi
• Vietnamese
• russkij

New target platforms

• Digital Alpha (preliminary) – yes, IPCop runs on Alpha systems as well as Intel ix86 machines. ISO available on request to sense the need for this.

[break]The following downloads are available:
IPCop 1.4.0 ISO (40MB)
IPCop 1.4.0 torrent
source code