IPCop is really a great project. In brief: it's a rock-solid open source (which is good for security) firewall, easy to administer, it has low hardware requirements and it's functions are expandable thanks to all the addons available. If you need more informations, please visit it's web site.

After using it for several years, I'm going to give my 2 cents. Here you can find the outcome of my own work on the subject.

Here you can find some addons I've developed myself.

The Advanced Packaging Tool (APT) is one of the best tools I've ever used; since I started using Ubuntu Linux, I could appreciate its simplicity.

To make a long story short, I've built an addon to port this Debian tool to IPCop, together with a repository containing several addons packaged as ".deb" files.

For details on using the repository and a package list, see the Repository section.

As usual, if you want to contact me or contribute (suggestions, request new addons for the repository, etc.) please don't hesitate to contact me.

Addon	Description	Version
APT	Advanced Packaging Tool for IPCop	1.1.2
	Advanced Packaging Tool for IPCop. Old version.	1.1.1
	Advanced Packaging Tool for IPCop. Shortest life version...	1.1.0
	Advanced Packaging Tool for IPCop. Old version.	1.0.1

Installation

To install this addon, simply execute these commands:

cd /wherever/you/downloaded
tar zxf ipcop-apt-x.y.z.tgz
cd ipcop-apt
./install

Removal

To remove this addon, you should issue these commands:

cd /wherever/you/downloaded
tar zxf ipcop-apt-x.y.z.tgz
cd ipcop-apt
./uninstall

Changelog

1.1.2
 - Upgraded to apt 0.7.20.2+lenny1 built from source.

1.1.1
 - Upgraded to apt 0.7.20.2 and dpkg 1.14.25 built from source. Previous version
   lasted only two days... :-(

1.1.0
 - Upgraded to apt 0.7.20.1 and dpkg 1.14.24 built from source. Previous versions
   were extracted by debian (sarge) packages, which are no longer available.
 - Added two meta-packages (apt and dpkg) used to keep them updated via repository.

1.0.1
 - Fixed a typo (/etc/apt/sources.d should be named /etc/apt/sources.list.d)

1.0.0
 - Initial release