[wellylug] Broadband

[Phillip Rose]

This post is just to respond to a couple of comments about Smoothwall. I
have used Smoothwall 1.x, followed by Smoothwall Express 2.0 with a dialup
connection at home for over a year with no complaints. It offers Logging
server, DHCP server, DNS proxy server, Kernel logging server, Web proxy,
Web server, Secure shell server, Intrusion Detection System, CRON server,
VPN and a few other other doodads. I didn't have the
time/skills/patience/burning_desire to build a DIY firewall, and the
floppy-based firewalls like Coyote lacked some of the features I wanted.

At 10:25 12/08/04 +1200, Michael Dittmer wrote:
> (I found they need 256MB RAM for Smoothwall Express 2.0
>especially when using a SpeedTouch USB ADSL modem).

A P166 with 4GB HDD, 64MB RAM does fine for my humble setup. Smoothwall
will recommend a lot more RAM and HD space than I have, but I suspect
that's more for larger, busier networks than mine. 

At some point in time Daniel Reurich wrote:
>I thought Smoothwall was a commercial pay for the all the features
>thing.

There's the free, OSS version:
http://smoothwall.org/
and then there's the commercial version:
http://www.smoothwall.net/

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.
 
OTOH, Daniel Reurich wrote:

>I was under the impression that IPCop generally is more
>up to date and better patched that smoothwall.

The dates I found on their respective web sites indicate that Smoothwall's
last major release and last patch postdate the analogous IPCop releases,
but not by much:

Smoothwall Express 2.0 dates from Dec, 2003
Latest patch: SmoothWall Express 2.0 [][]fixes3 [2004-05-26] « 3.05 MB

IPCop v1.3.0 ISO Image  Release date: Apr 22 2003
IPCop v1.3.0 fixes 9  Release date: Mar 29 2004

--Phillip Rose