I've been using SmoothWall for a long time now with ADSL, I agree that as a firewall with pptp it isn't working on Israeli lines, I'm using it only as a router + firewall (3 legs - inter/intra/dmz) and as such it is very good. About the "forked" distro, it's still based on the 2.2 kernel, with all the problems it has, so as a firewall I wouldn't recommend it... they just took SmoothWall for what it had in the 0.99 version and changed the gui(web site), all the bugs and vulnerabilities are still there. Regarding SmoothWall or others as a firewall, of course its best to use a hardened distro for a firewall, but it also may have its own "new" bugs, so every distro has to be checked for what it is. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Eli Marmor Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 6:46 AM To: Raft of Circumcised Penguins Subject: Re: Smoothwall and other Linux FWs & ADSL (Revisited)
Meir Kriheli wrote: > I've used smoothwall, till I found about the fully GPLed fork of it named > IPCop (ipcop.sf.net). This one worked great for me and for some of my clients > and supports pptp out of the box. > > PS > > The fork started 'cause smoothwall's lead developer is a real ass. He was > physically attacked some time ago ( as rude as he was, I don't think he > deserved that). > > I couldn't believe the treatment he gave to users of the GPL edition in the > mailing lists, it was very rude. IPCop developers are more pleasent and > helpfull. I suggest giving it a try (their wiki at sf.net seems problematic > for now, hope it gets fixed soon). IPCop is still based on kernel 2.2, so it doesn't support iptables, contrary to the distros I mentioned (LEAF, WOLVERINE and DEVIL-LINUX). If you want to check it nevertheless, and don't have patience to wait till their wiki is up, try the following link: http://216.239.33.100/search?q=cache:CDW_96LQBo4C:ipcop.org/&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 -- Eli Marmor [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO, Founder Netmask (El-Mar) Internet Technologies Ltd. __________________________________________________________ Tel.: +972-9-766-1020 8 Yad-Harutzim St. Fax.: +972-9-766-1314 P.O.B. 7004 Mobile: +972-50-23-7338 Kfar-Saba 44641, Israel ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
