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.