RE: Smoothwall

["Chris Bond" <chris@xxxxxxx>]

Behind the scenes it=92s a bit better than smoothwall, i.e. not as many
shell exploits if someone had shell access (which you don't really give
out anyway!)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Calum Morrell [mailto:calum@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 10 March 2002 7:24 PM
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Smoothwall
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> That's not true Chris. IPCop is a recent fork from Smoothwall GPL and
> as a result is almost identical at the moment. It is however
> *completely* free of charge and will remain so. This is not the case
> with Smoothwall.
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> My advice is the same as Chris's tho. IPCop has a lot going for it,
> not least the skills and knowledge of the main developers and the
> features they plan to implement into IPCop for the future.
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> Rather than using the sourceforge site, try http://www.ipcop.org ...
> yes I know it points to the same place, but that may not be the case
> in future :-)
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> Also, if you need any help with it, point your IRC client to
> irc.openprojects.net and /join #ipcop
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> On 10 Mar 2002 at 12:07, Chris Bond wrote:
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> > 200MB would be fine - however look at http://ipcop.sourceforge.net
it=92s
> > a lot more secure than smoothwall.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Pedro de Oliveira [mailto:p.oliveira@xxxxxxx]
> g to the smoothwall site it seems that it's a linux distro .
> > is
> > > this right?
> <SNIP>
> Yes
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> > > What I would like to know is how much disk space smoothwall
needs.
> I can get cheap (=A32) 200Mb hard drives but how much space
> could I get away with 200Mb??
> <SNIP>
> That should be fine
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> Does smoothwall do
> > > internet connection sharing?  Does it do port forwarding??
> <SNIP>
> Yes and yes. Also supports transparent proxy, DMZ, VPN, etc etc etc
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> Enjoy :-)
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> --
> Calum Morrell
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