I have a P2 266 box here that is available for a demo if someone wants to do
it.



-----Original Message-----
From: dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, 22 June 2006 7:23 p.m.
To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz
Subject: Re: Telstra cable...


Is this an offer to demo at a clug meeting ?

Chris where are you when an offer comes up like this :)????

On Thursday 22 June 2006 17:02, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
> > IPCop is fine, despite Volker's prejudices.
>
> Actually, I spent a lot of time investigating various firewall 
> softwares, and then decided to settle on ipcop, for various reasons. 
> While I was configuring it, I needed a couple of extra ackages. The 
> first one shat itself with a segfault, seen when ssh into the ipcop 
> box, the BUI screen just shows a lot of blank nothing. The second one 
> had a lot of user screen for not very much, and it would have been as 
> fast to work out the config file by hand with a text editor than 
> clicking around. Why have the thing then in the first place. Combined 
> with some questionable design choices, a general lack of features, and 
> a pile of bugs not inspiring confidence I changed my mind pretty 
> quickly. pfsense is infinitely more polished than ipcop.
>
> You can call it prejudice, I'll stay with considered opinion :)
>
> Volker
>
> PS Happy to demonstrate both.

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