[clug] Firewall distros - recommendations

[Rodney Peters]

You are correct that Smoothwall 1.0 has not been supported for some time.  It 
used the now superceded ipchains.

I've used Smoothwall 2.0 and IPCop 1.4.x with ADSL.  It's swings & 
roundabouts, but if you are using ISA NIC, then only Smoothwall will work.  A 
member of another LUG tells me not to go beyond 1.4.2 with IPCop as all the 
later patches are broken.

Either should work on a 486, but need a minimum HDD of about 504 MB.  64 MB 
RAM will be heaps.

An ADSL modem having ethernet interface is definitely the way to go.  Although 
Smoothwall & IPCop have support for many USB devices, it is only in PPPoA 
mode - which many ISP do not support.  Mine does not - consequently I can't 
say whether USB support in Smoothwall & IPCop is at all useful.


Rod

On Tuesday 12 April 2005 11:39, linux-request at lists.samba.org wrote:
> From:
> Rob Bolin <rbolin at webone.com.au>
>
>
> To:
> linux at lists.samba.org
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> Date:
> Yesterday 07:15:43
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>
> Morning all,
>
> I'm about to upgrade from dialup to ADSL (yay finally), and I figure it
> would be a good time to take another look at the distro on my firewall,
> seeing I have reconfigure it any way.
>
> Not wanting to start a distro flamewar, I'm looking for recommendations
> based on recent experiences - currently I'm running Smoothwall v1.0 on a
> 486 with 64mb of RAM (I must admit that I'm not even sure if they are
> supporting 1.0 anymore - I haven't received a fix in 10 months).
>
> So if anyone has any ideas, I'd like to hear them.
>
> Rob