[NMLUG] Re: Linux Router/Firewall

[paul.tietjens at moriarty.k12.nm.us (Paul Tietjens)]

Kyle Petree wrote:

>I'll second Smoothwall.  Been running it for I guess 2 years now.  Can
>be installed from bootable CD or if the old 166 doesn't support that you
>can install via HTTP.  All basic firewall functionality is there.  
>
>I have a Dlink and a Linksys handy and poking around both, there is
>little to nothing that Smoothie can't do.  
>
>Since Richard Morrel left that team, things have improved greatly.  That
>said, due to Richard there was a fork called IPCop that I believe is
>still active that might be another good option.
>  
>
I've seen IpCop in action, and it compares well to Smoothwall - and has 
the bonus of being community supported and has lot's of little hacks 
laying around for it (content filtering, graphs and so on).

IpCop has a more "gpl" feel than Smoothwall does - and occasionally they 
beat the Smoothwall devs to a security update or a feature release (like 
ext3, iptables, etc).