[ILUG] IpCop or Smoothwall..

[Breathnach, Proinnsias (Dublin)]

Their attitude, as they mention in the FAQs is essentially that the GPL
version is _completely_ unsupported ... if you want support from them,
you'll have to pay for it ...

It's a little on the hardline side, but for them, on a tight budget, and not
wanting to go titsup.com, it's a sensible strategy

P

> -----Original Message-----
> 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
>