IPCop vs Smoothwall

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 21:13 -0700, George Toft wrote:
> Let me be the lone voice in support of smoothwall...
> 
> I like Smoothwall for the following reasons:
> - Point and click web-based interface
> - Plug in modules to add additional functionality
> - It is supported by Fujitsu and USRobotics (well, kinda)
> - Squid does transparent proxying so it can't be bypassed
> - "It just works"
> 
> I don't like Smoothwall for the following reasons:
> - The OS is just plain weird.  Yes, it is Linux, but it does not look 
> like Debian, Slack nor any RH/Fedora derivitave.  I may be mistaken, but 
> it is different.
> - Running SmoothWall takes a beefier box than I expected.  I am having 
> problems making it run reliably on a 486DX2 with 40 MB RAM :)  It runs 
> really well on 1.7GHz/256MB RAM.
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the last time I looked...and it's been some # of years, smoothwall was
based on Red Hat 6.2 system - ipchains, though they probably have done
some updating.

ipcop I understand is done with LFS.

Both had very spartan intentions to be run on minimal hardware setups

Craig