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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good book, but not better than freely available documentation
I use IPCop at a 30 users network. We also route specific applications through different T1 connections, and have plenty of custom iptables rules. IPCop per se is a great product. I can't say the book is bad but it does not add any substantial information to the documentation you can find at IPCop site and download for free. Buy it only if you want to...
Published on January 8, 2007 by Andres Paglayan
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Decent book for novice, but little content or depth
I frankly expected more from this book. It is short (220 pages), and consists largely of screenshots of IPCop configuration screens interspersed with descriptions of what each page means. If you have no idea how a firewall works, this book will help you get started. If you have any significant networking experience and are looking for a book to assist you with...
Published on August 12, 2007 by A. Dornbusch
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Decent book for novice, but little content or depth,
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This review is from: Configuring IPCop Firewalls: Closing Borders with Open Source: How to setup, configure and manage your Linux firewall, web proxy, DHCP, DNS, time ... VPN with this powerful Open Source solution (Paperback)
I frankly expected more from this book. It is short (220 pages), and consists largely of screenshots of IPCop configuration screens interspersed with descriptions of what each page means. If you have no idea how a firewall works, this book will help you get started. If you have any significant networking experience and are looking for a book to assist you with configuring and debugging a network firewall, then it won't be of much help.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good book, but not better than freely available documentation,
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This review is from: Configuring IPCop Firewalls: Closing Borders with Open Source: How to setup, configure and manage your Linux firewall, web proxy, DHCP, DNS, time ... VPN with this powerful Open Source solution (Paperback)
I use IPCop at a 30 users network. We also route specific applications through different T1 connections, and have plenty of custom iptables rules.
IPCop per se is a great product. I can't say the book is bad but it does not add any substantial information to the documentation you can find at IPCop site and download for free. Buy it only if you want to pay for freely available documentation or if you are a book bluff. |
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Configuring IPCop Firewalls: Closing Borders with Open Source: How to setup, configure and manage your Linux firewall, web proxy, DHCP, D... by Barrie Dempster (Paperback - October 1, 2006)
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