Re: FN-FORUM: Ipcop vs smoothwall

date posted 25th June 2003 22:39

IPCop 1.3 has been running on my network since it was available as well and I
highly recommend it.

My kids are into internet games so I installed the DansGuardian addons from
dageek.co.uk which is a very configurable monitor/content manager which I
think would be very useful in a corporate environment. You can restrict
access to particular types of sites/content or just run in rat-trap mode
which logs deviant activity (quietly).

These features might be available in smoothwall too. I downloaded it but
haven't had the need/urge to try it. I liked the look of the 2.0 toaster on
their site but my fascination ends there.

/rob

On Wednesday 25 Jun 2003 5:13 pm, David Nye wrote:
> Having started with smoothwall yesterday, the experts have now confused
> my choice!
>
> Is anyone here actually using the current stable release of ipcop
> (1.3.0)?
>
> Smoothwall 2.0 (beta) has had a couple of recommendations from happy
> users, so I downloaded that first.
>
> Which is the better long term bet for the small corporate LAN?
>
> David Nye
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