IPCop is a fork of SmoothWall .99. Either one is good. However IPCop uses a 2.4.20 kernel and smoothwall still uses a 2.2 kernel. Also IPCop can save your configuration on a floppy, so if you have to reinstall you can use the disk for quick recovery without having to remember your settings. For me that feature alone makes IPCop better. :^)
Ralph On Tuesday 15 July 2003 12:13 pm, Gavin wrote: > Experts, > Most of my friends have suggested using IPCOP or SMOOTHWALL for my f/w. > question, is there a noticeable difference between the two? I ran both and > they seem almost the same.. I'm new to this firewall stuff. All I would > like is a simple safe F/W to protect my small private school network.. in > short I don't need to kill ants with lighting bolts!! any suggestions are > welcomed! > > TIA
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