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
If you just want a quick-n-dirty stateful inspection engine to keep the
script kiddies out, any firewall package with reasonable defaults will
do the job. There are about twenty packages on
http://www.distrowatch.com aiming to provide just that, including
Mandrake's own MNF. If you want a platform
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
On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 20:00, Ralph Crongeyer wrote:
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.
2.4.21 to be correct.
http://www.smoothwall.org/beta/releases/orient.html
David.
Want to buy your Pack or
