I have to laugh... I came from smoothwall .... because of the problems of the inability to modify it to suite my needs. ... *sigh* Yes you are right about Mandrake/RH/SuSe having monster solutions.
James On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 11:01, KevinO wrote: > <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 >
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