[ILUG] IpCop or Smoothwall..

[Dermot Daly]

I've only had one experience with Smoothwall - I downloades the ISO,
made a cd and booted from it.  I have a spare partition on my disk and I
wanted to see what it was like, so I was gonna put it there.

Unfortunately the install didn't give much option, so basically
overwrote my mba, and put itself on one of my (what was currently) in
use partitions.

So..Maybe it was a case of not rtfm, but beware - Its installation wants
smoothwall to "own" the machine.  (And before anyone mentions it : I
know that this will be important for firewalls, but I just wanted to try
to evaluate it).



-----Original Message-----
From: Breathnach, Proinnsias (Dublin)
[mailto:breatpro at exchange.ie.ml.com] 
Sent: 03 October 2002 13:34
To: 'macarthy at iol.ie'
Cc: 'ILUG'
Subject: RE: [ILUG] IpCop or Smoothwall..


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
> 

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