Re: suse linux and firewall

Thank you, Alan. I will definately have a look at IPCop. Smoothwall
supports the features I want, but only if I pay them... As far as
automatic updates go, I would hope that things don't blow up. But, I
suppose it still happens... I haven't seen anywhere that IPCop
supports it, anyhow.
-Erik

On 6/22/05, Alan Dayley <alandd@consultpros.com> wrote:
> Erik Bixby said:
> > I had noticed that people seemed to be encouraged to use their
> > commercial version, rather than the free one. I used OpenBSD for a
> > while, because Smoothwall (free version) didn't support two features I
> > wanted: multiple IP addresses on the "red" interface, and packet
> > shaping/traffic prioritization. I see in IPCop's FAQ that they
> > support multiple IP address on the "red" interface, but I can't find any
> > mention packet shaping or traffic prioritization.
>
> The release announcement for 1.4.0
> (http://ipcop.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=2)
> lists traffic shaping under the new features. There is also some sort of
> Quality of Service (QoS) addon or something from http://www.ipcop-pro.de
> that I have seen mentioned in the email list.
>
> I have not used either.
>
> > Now that I think about it, a minor annoyance with Smoothwall is that
> > lack of automated updates. Does IPCop update itself automatically?
>
> I don't recall if it has automatic updates or not. I would not enable it
> if it has it. Once I did a same-day-of-release update to Smoothwall that
> caused the IDS log to fill the hard drive in a few minutes, locking the
> system and, therefore, stopping all net access. Since then I always wait
> a few days to see if problem reports come across the email list. If all
> is quiet, then I do the update.
>
> Alan
>
>
>
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