[IPCop-user] ipcop setup

[mick w. <he...@wo...>]

Hi, this is my first post to the list, I'm a computer (mature) student with
no knowledge of Linux.   I will be studying Linux next semester at college,
but at the moment I want to set up a small network at home on a low budget.
It will most likely have about 5 pcs on it.   I want to let my kids onto the
internet but I want to have some control over what they may run into.

 

I don't know if i may want to put in a web server at some point, I might
want to run a mailing list, I have a mailing list right now with about 800
subscribers which I have hosted for me, I could run it from home it's
usually only 100 to 200 messages per day, text only.

 

I have installed ipcop on an old box 400 MHz pentium2 with 385 mb ram 8 gig
hd which I think may be sufficient for what I need.   It's up and running,
and I'm connecting through it now, it goes through an isp provided dsl
router which supplies an external ip address on login.   The router does
dhcp and ipcop does dhcp too, should I turn off the dhcp in the router?   Or
does it not matter?

 

I read some stuff about installing peerguardian on the ipcop box, that seems
like a good idea, but I don't know the basics of how to move files around
and install programs in Linux.   I'm more familiar with Windows and Dos.  I
know that peerguardian blocks out some good stuff, like Google, and even my
own website, and this can be handled in Windows with an allow list built
into PG2 called permallow, how do I do that in Linux?

http://tuxtraining.com/2008/06/05/filter-out-riaampaa-with-peerguardian-on-i
pcop/

 

For antivirus I read about copfilter, Is there a good guide to setting that
up?   It looks like it might be complicated for a Linux newbie.   Is there a
preferred order to install?

 

I'd be grateful for any advice, and apologies if any of my questions are
inappropriate for this list.

 

Regards

 

Mick.w.