Re: IPCop vs Smoothwall

Alex Dean wrote:

> I'm using IPCop at home on a PII with 256MB. I haven't use Smoothwall.
>
> IPCop is a champ. Farily easy to configure, well documented, and
> there are lots of free addon packages for doing things like mail or
> web content filtering. The ipcop-users mailing list is also
> generally responsive to questions. (Not as friendly as PLUG, though.)
>
> alex
>
> ps - I haven't yet found an addon package that will support Snort
> (intrusion detection) logging to MySQL. All you get by default is
> logging to a text file, which you can read via IPCop's web
> interface. Not very useful, as you basically have to troll through
> pages and pages of log entries looking for possible problems. I've
> turned Snort off until I find a more effective way to analyze its
> logs. That's maybe a little off topic, but it's the only thing I've
> yet wanted from IPCop that hasn't been easy to add.


IPCop is a great solution, and has many features. It'll probably have
more in the future. Make enough (polite) noise, and someone may add
snort+mysql, since that would be useful to a fairly wide audience.

But if you're going to get advanced enough in your desires or
requirements then you might consider learning to set up a firewall
yourself using iptables, etc. Or use OpenBSD (pf is *way* easier to
learn than iptables) ;)

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Darrin Chandler            |  Phoenix BSD Users Group
dwchandler@stilyagin.com   |  http://bsd.phoenix.az.us/
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