On Saturday 11 January 2003 07:46 am, stefmit wrote: > Does anybody know what is - then - the difference between smoothwall and > ipcop (i.e. who is doing more development and update work)? I got ipcop > (www.ipcop.org), and I like it ... never tried smoothwall, though.
One of the developers of Smoothwall is passionately against ipCop.. Worth reading their list to see what others think. For the most part, the users are totally pleased, as am I, with the product. > On Saturday 11 January 2003 03:06 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 10:30:04AM -0500, Mark Weaver wrote: > > > >I grabbed an old P90 with 32MB - 540MB Drive and installed Smoothwall. > > > >http://www.smoothwall.org > > > >Now I run my entire network through it and just simply fergit it's > > > > there except for frequent log checks. > > > > > > I've heard about this one before but have never seen it. I'm > > > downloading the ISO now. Is this an actual installable OS/Firewall, or > > > just firewall software? > > > > It's a full installable OS/Firewall with DHCP, VPN, etc. We're running > > 0.99SE with the patches in on an old 486 with 8Mb of RAM (I had to move > > the HD to another machine with more memory to install it, but after that > > it runs fine on old hardware). We have 17 clients and it is great. > > > > There's a corporate and GPL version. The guys at > > smoothwall.org/smoothwall.co.uk are very... passionate about it and > > have a very clear idea about what should and should not be in the GPL > > version. The mailing list can be very exciting :). I read it, but don't > > know enough about networking and firewalls to even frame a sensible > > question. And, whatever you, don't ask if there is an online archive of > > the mailing list. > > > > The installation docs are very well written. So, from someone who is > > mostly a desktop user and knows little sysadmin it is great. > > > > Dave -- Ken Thompson Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936
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