[wellylug] Broadband

[Centurion Computer Technology Ltd]

I thought Smoothwall was a commercial pay for the all the features
thing.  IPCop is fine at what it does.  My one has been running for the
last 130 days straight, but would have been longer if it wasn't for a
power failure.  I was under the impression that IPCop generally is more
up to date and better patched that smoothwall.


On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 10:25, Michael Dittmer wrote:
> I'd say use Smoothwall over IPCOP, IPCOP is very slow in their development
> and Smoothwall is well ahead of them.
> 
> I have a couple of Smoothwall boxes with clients and so far have had no
> problems with them. They have 100% uptime - except for when I reboot them
> after an update (I found they need 256MB RAM for Smoothwall Express 2.0
> especially when using a SpeedTouch USB ADSL modem).
> 
> They only thing I wish it could do is e-mail me copies of it's logs. If
> someone knows how to get it to do that, please contact me.
> 
> Michael
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wellylug-admin at lists.naos.co.nz
> [mailto:wellylug-admin at lists.naos.co.nz] On Behalf Of Centurion Computer
> Technology Ltd
> Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 9:25 AM
> To: wellylug
> Subject: Re: [wellylug] Broadband
> 
> I'd still recommend a box with ipcop over a hardware router, and you get
> a nice web proxy with ipcop as well.  A few addons like Dans Guardian
> will put a stop to all that nasty porn shit and stop silly windows users
> from downloading trojans form the net as well.
> 
> On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 07:40, Jethro Carr wrote:
> > thanks for the replys,
> > 
> > 
> > I was thinking woosh, but it's not in my area, and I don't think it will
> > be for a long time (if ever - very hilly).
> > 
> > 
> > it looks like cable is the way to go. That's good, as I'm already on
> > paradise. (I don't have to change email addresses)
> > 
> > 
> > I'm planning to use a router, with firewalling to link the cable modem
> > to my lan.
> > 
> >
> http://www.dse.co.nz/cgi-bin/dse.storefront/411a761607a85a0a273fc0a87f9906b4
> /Product/View/XH1151
> > 
> > Has anyone used this? It appears to be quite good (price, features -
> > firewall, dhcp server, print server), but I don't know how if the
> > printserver works for linux systems.
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > -- Jethro
> > 
> > dodocaptain at paradise.net.nz
> > 
> > http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/jethroc
> > http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/jethroc/cv.html
> > 
> > http://www.wellylug.org.nz
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> 	Daniel Reurich
> 	Centurion Computer Technolgy Limited
> 	
> 	Ph: (04) 565 1832
> 	    (021) 797 722
> 	    
> 	email: centurion at paradise.net.nz
> 
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