IPCop vs Smoothwall

[Alex Dean]

On Mar 30, 2006, at 11:42 AM, Jim wrote:

> I am going to set up a P5-233 with 64M as a firewall between my DSL
> modem and internal network.  I would liked opinions, pro and con,  
> about
> using IPCop and Smoothwall as the OS.

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.
.