[ILUG] IpCop or Smoothwall..

[Justin MacCarthy]

I've been running smoothwall at home for a year and a half without any
problems, but I do have a few concerns about it;

a) The attitude of the authors when I was setting it up. They didn't seem to
like anyone asking newbie-ish firewall questions, with I thought was weird
considering that the audience for smoothwall, are by its nature are firewall
newbies. It wasn't as if I was emailing the author or something just asking
a reasonable question in the IRC channel..

b) The snort rules, it would be nice if they added a snort rule updater to
the build. They are plenty of scripts available to do this.

Otherwise good :-)

We are thinking of installing the commercial product in our office. Anyone
using that?

Justin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ilug-admin at linux.ie [mailto:ilug-admin at linux.ie]On Behalf Of Andy
> Edmonds
> Sent: 03 October 2002 13:04
> To: Pearse Stokes; ilug at linux.ie
> Subject: Re: [ILUG] IpCop or Smoothwall..
>
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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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