We played with untangle in thoughts of putting out on our appliances. I
think it looks totally awesome I like the modular thing but in the end for
me I am not a GUI guy so give me IPTables and conf files I live in text. I
think untangle has allot of potential but we havn't benchmarked it.
James Finstrom
Rhino Equipment Corp.
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Eric Shubert <
ejs@shubes.net> wrote:
> Chipper wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have never heard of this before yesterday when a new version was
> > announced on DistroWatch. Has anyone tried this before?
> >
> > I want to set up a new firewall system when I move over the summer and
> > was leaning towards IPCOP. Looking at Untangle
> > (http://www.untangle.com/tabs) it seems like it would be a good fit as
> > well.
> >
> > Since I've never heard of it or used it I wanted to know if anyone else
> has.
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> I had a look at it several months ago. The user interface is really
> slick. Comes at a price though. It needs significantly more (expensive)
> hardware to run than IPCop. I also found the email scanning features to
> be inappropriate for a firewall (spamassassin on a firewall? I don't
> think so).
>
> BL, I prefer (and use) IPCop. You can run it easily on an old machine
> that would otherwise be recycled (Pentium I or II, 128M RAM, 3G HDD).
> Something "built for Win95" or later would suffice. Just toss in a 1 or
> 2 nics, and you're good to go.
>
> --
> -Eric 'shubes'
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