<rant> I ran (fought with, suffered with) SNF for several months. Now we use Smoothwall. (IPCop should be similar)
My suggestion: Use smoothwall or something similar. Don't bother with SNF. Sorry Mandrake. I like your distributions and I support you financially. But, SNF was a terrible product. Slow, wouldn't forward UDP (despite allowing you to configure that in without any warnings or complaints.), and too big of a distribution for a firewall. SNF > 300MB download Smoothwall < 30MB download (and it does pretty much everything SNF claims it will) Easier to use/figure out web interface too. I consider the time I spent with SNF to have been a total waste. </rant> KevinO James Sparenberg wrote: > OK, > I've got SNF running on my firewall.... now comes the problem... How > do I update it? The update directories on the mirrors don't have > hdlist.cz so urpmi is out. The web pages insist that I'm not connected > (note if I wasn't connected the laptop I'm on wouldn't be sending this > e-mail) so I can't use them. SNF has no graphical interface so > MandrakeUpdate is out of the question. All in all it really looks like > it should be a nice product. Other than being slow as heck (speaking of > the web pages.) What it really wants is for me to admit that my cable > modem is my lan and my lan is the internet. (the web pages insist on > swapping eth1 and eth0 > > Basically .. I really would like to know another way to update this > box short of reading the file list in the updates directory and > comparing it to the version installed and downloading and running rpm > one file at a time. > > James > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- KevinO Matz's Law: A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
