Just wondering Joe,
What enhancements and security fixes have you seen in IPCOP that you havent seen in smoothwall? regards, Ezat At 08:57 AM 27/02/2002 -0500, Joe Matuscak wrote: >On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Marco Zimmermann wrote: > > > Does anyboby know something about the firewall called smoothwall > > (www.smoothwall.org)! Some friends of mine are using this pre > > configured firewall for their home network. > >You probably should look at the Smoothwall fork, IPcop. See www.ipcop.org. >Its a somewhat long story, but if you want something GPL, youre best off >looking at IPcop. At the moment its pretty similar to Smoothwall GPL, but >it has some enhancements and security fixes that are not present in the >Smoothwall GPL version AFAIK. > > > I want to use smoothie for a small network in a little company, > > whit about 20 workstations behind the firewall. and the internet > > connection is only for services like http, smpt, pop3, ftp etc. > > (requests). There are no servers (web-, mail-, terminalserver > > etc.) behind the firewall! > >The Smoothwall folks would steer you in the direction of one of their >commercial releases. Again, if you want free, look at IPcop. > > > So my question is: how safe the smoothwall for this use? Is there > > any security hole which I have to know? > >Both IPcop and Smoothwall are stripped down Linux 2.2 kernel based >systems. As such they use ipchains which is not not stateful. There are >some recent Squid problems that IPcop released a fix for, Smoothwall has >not. I wouldnt call either of them super sophisticated, but they are >rather nicely packaged, easy to install distributions that should work >well for the application youve described. > > >Joe Matuscak >Rohrer Corporation >717 Seville Road >Wadsworth, Ohio 44281 >(330)335-1541 >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >_______________________________________________ >Firewalls mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://lists.gnac.net/mailman/listinfo/firewalls _______________________________________________ Firewalls mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnac.net/mailman/listinfo/firewalls
