[Tfug] router/firewall distro

[Angus Scott-Fleming]

On 11 Sep 2002 at 16:43, s  wrote:

> smoothwall is really good, it's what I use for my firewall

The 'gentleman' who wrote/maintains smoothwall is a flaming jerk, and he has 
driven away many of the "freeloaders" (his word) who don't buy his commercial 
version.  So many were driven away that they forked a new distro called IPCop 
-- google for it, as it's NOT on ipcop.org.

I have a number of freesco boxes running -- all 486es with 16-20mb RAM and 
100mb drives, although on one of them I just run it from floppy.  I have been 
very happy with all of them -- rock-solid stable.  One of them is acting as a 
print server as well.  I moved one client from multiple modems at their 
desktops to a shared freesco with one NIC and one modem for the entire LAN of 
8 users and they actually prefer it as they don't have to go online manually 
to get email, they're "on" all the time, even though it's slower.

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Angus Scott-Fleming
GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona
http://www.geoapps.com/   
1-520-290-5038 / fax 1-208-248-3124
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