[ILUG] IpCop or Smoothwall..

[Stephane Dudzinski]

i deployed ipcop lately for a friend of mine who's close to a complete
windows user and it does the job well, i would recommend ipcop straight
away.

On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 12:50, Breathnach, Proinnsias (Dublin) wrote:
> http://www.smoothwall.org/home/articles/dickmorrell/20020322.time.html
> 
> Seems Smoothwall and IPCop aren't the best of buddies these days ...
> 
> Smoothwall GPL _is_ GPL, only unsupported. Smoothwall Commercial == GPL +
> Stuff Smoothwall.co.uk added themselves to make it "nicer"
> 
> P
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Firstly, just to remind you that I'm always going to be a newbie, and 
> > command line entries are not my forte. I don't have the knowledge, time or
> > 
> > abilty to make my own firewall.
> > 
> > So, I looked up suitable options on the 'net, and found Smoothwall, which 
> > happened to be on a Linux Format CD I've got.
> > 
> > Installation seems OK, but I do have some concerns about the commercial 
> > aspects that appear to crop up, and some really abusive stuff seems to
> > have 
> > emanated from the author(s) of the software, directed at 'the community'.
> > 
> > Other GPL concerns seem to be relevant.
> > 
> > So, I've found IpCop, which claims to deal with these issues, while doing 
> > the same job.
> > 
> > Any ideas about which I should use?
> > 
> > Many thanks
> > 
> > pps
> > 
> 
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