Alex,
Smoothwall, like everyone said its easy to install &
configure. I am runningthis on our company network of
about 50-60 machines + FTP, MAIL & WEB SERVERS. The
only difficulty I face is setting up the
portforwarding. Which is still on hold. I cann't
compare IPCop & smoothwall since I didn't use IP Cop
yet. I love the feature that It has the DMZ option,
whioch is very useful.
If anyone can help me with the port-forwarding
settings It will be of great help.
-- JS
--- Jordan Dohms <jordan.dohms@net-linx.com> wrote:
Hi Alex,
I've got it on a box at my house. It works very
well, with no
problems. The developers seem to be really on top
of things, with
regular updates (and painless...upgrade through the
Web GUI). It's got
some nice bonus features such as traffic graphing,
DNS forwarding,
built-in DHCP server, IDS, etc which can be enable
or disabled if
desired. Takes the hassle out of buildling/tweaking
each additional
feature independently. It has fairly basic
port-forwarding and
redirection features, which would likely be fine for
most people, but
some might find it lacking.
I would have no fears or doubts about installing it
in a corporate
setting either (within reason). All in all, a very
good option...I have
no regrets and you can't beat the price.
Jordan
On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 22:13, Alex Schoof wrote:
Has anyone used Smoothwall? I'm building a new
firewall, and I was
considering using Smoothwall versus IPCop. I was
hoping that someone had
used it and could give me an opinion.
TIA
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