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Thursday, January 26, 2006

IPCop Virtual Machine - New ESX Version Available

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I've created an ESX version of the IPCop virtual machine. You can download it here. This one is about 96MB.

For more info on what we (at vmwarez) have done w/ IPCop, check out these two posts:

IPCop Pre-built VM Updated IPCop Test Rig...

For more info on IPCop, check out www.ipcop.org.
The add-ons that are already installed in this VM are: urlfilter, advproxy w/ Classroom Extensions & Calamaris Proxy Report Generator.

Also, check out other prebuilt virtual machines on VMWare's Community Virtual Machine Center.

I've used this in a production VMWare ESX installation as a firewall for a hosted server... It works great.

To get to the console, you have to SSH or open the console... The username is root and the pw is vmwarez. Once you're in, you'll need to change the IP addresses to suit your needs... then the web-interface can be accessed on the "private" side by going to http://IPADDRESS:81. The username for that is admin and the pw is also vmwarez.

Enjoy... and if you have any questions, post comments and I'll answer there.

Click here for more vmwarez.com pre-built VMs.

Posted By: Jim on Thursday, January 26, 2006
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14 Comments:

  • Nice! I'll put this to use on monday. Thanks for all your hard work.

    By Anonymous, at January 29, 2006 6:28 AM  

  • Do you apply the PaX and the grsecurity patches to the vmware image? If not, that would be a wonderful thing to do.

    By Anonymous, at March 06, 2006 11:40 AM  

  • Outstanding work! Kudos!
    I'll try this asap.

    By RealOpen IT, at March 09, 2006 4:02 AM  

  • I tried to import this into vmware ESX and received the following error:

    [root@esx1 ESX]# vmkfstools -i IPCop.vmdk vmhba0:1:0:1:IPCop.vmdk
    DiskLib_Open() failed. The file specified is not a virtual disk. (13)

    By Anonymous, at April 05, 2006 5:50 PM  

  • I got the same error as the previous commenter. I *think* that the problem is the size of the vmdk. My VMware Linux host detects the file size as larger than 2GB.

    By Mike, at April 06, 2006 8:30 AM  

  • I think you need to be running the version that is not made for ESX... You can find it here.

    HTH

    Jim

    By Jim, at April 06, 2006 8:55 AM  

  • I have just downloaded ipcop version 1.4.10 and it is installing on scsi disks fine so i have installed it on GSX as a test and looks fine so will try it on ESX new but should be fine also as same scsi disks are used.

    Just want to get vmtools running now any one help ??

    By Anonymous, at May 10, 2006 7:43 PM  

  • How do you change the green static IP? I don't see the "setup" user. Sorry. Newbie...

    By DJC, at June 13, 2006 10:59 PM  

  • Hi,

    Just run "setup" from the command prompt. That runs a nice menu-driven program that has lots of options. It is fairly easy to figure out after that. Let us know if you still need help.

    Jim

    By Jim, at June 14, 2006 5:53 AM  

  • Have you tried installing the VMware tools from ESX on this? It stops when it looks for the rc0.d - rc9.d directories which are not a part of this distro. Thanks for the help!!

    By djc, at June 14, 2006 1:31 PM  

  • I have tried, but was not successful. Another guy submitted an IPCop build to the VMWare Virtual Appliance Challenge that is based on the CVS. It has tools installed, but from what I can tell, it has a ton of other stuff too which one might not want on a firewall. Look for it here.

    By Jim, at June 14, 2006 2:18 PM  

  • Will this IPCOP vm-version detect my PCI-to-PCMCIA and Novatel HSDPA / 3G card?

    By Anonymous, at June 24, 2006 3:14 AM  

  • If your host sees it as a standard network connection, then vmware should give you the option of connecting to it... But the vm will not see it the Novatel device, just a standard vmxnet or pclance ethernet controller.

    HTH,

    Jim

    By Jim, at June 24, 2006 7:03 AM  

  • I am trying to use Network -> Aliases which forces me to use a static IP address. When I do that, I lose the default gateway and cannot ping the RED interface. I have tried setting the default route but while I can then ping the RED interface I still cannot access the Alias IP addresses I setup. Any ideas?

    By DJC, at July 12, 2006 4:29 PM  

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