IPCop vs Smoothwall

[Craig White]

On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 07:49 -0700, Erik Bixby wrote:
> "> - Squid does transparent proxying so it can't be bypassed
> 
> Web proxying is one (I think the only) feature of IPCop I'm not (yet)
> using. I'm not sure if there's really a difference here or not."
> 
> IPCop does transparent proxying, as well.  I am not aware of any
> feature that the "free" version of Smoothwall has that IPCop does not.
>  However, I can tell you that when I switched the "free" version of
> Smoothwall did not support multiple IP addresses on the "red"
> interface, and did not support traffic shaping.  IPCop does both
> these.
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it was the lack of multiple red interfaces on free version of smoothwall
and the possibility of same on ipcop that drove me from smoothwall to
ipcop and I've been happy since (not to suggest that smoothwall isn't
good).

Craig