We have now covered the topic of IPCop and are aware of its uses within our network and whether IPCop is useful for our particular network and organization. The driving force behind IPCop is its open-source nature and the community behind it, which we have tried to emphasize throughout this book.

We have seen how collections of quite simple tools can create very complex and powerful systems. We also know how to configure these tools using the IPCop interface and how to manage and enhance IPCop itself. This is all possible because of the strong open-source community behind IPCop. Including all user and developers, who constantly further the development of IPCop to create a system that can truly be an effective SOHO router, firewall, and powerful network appliance. As we have shown throughout, the tools involved are numerous and there are many developers and users involved. Combining all the developers of all the tools involved in IPCop easily runs into multiple thousands...