[ILUG] IpCop or Smoothwall..

[Andy Edmonds]

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No probs with Smoothwall GPL here (version 2 coming out soon) only for a
bodged hda with corrupted sectors - still runs happily tho :)

Andy

Pearse Stokes wrote:
| 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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