[ale] IPCop alternative?

[Geoffrey]

Steve Tynor wrote:
> Geoffrey wrote:
> 
> | John Wells wrote:
> | > I'm having probs with ipcop and linux pptp sessions.  After some rather
> ...
> | You mentioned Smoothwall already, but it's so easy to drop in place, I'd 
> | go that route.  Then again, I believe ipcop is a fork of smoothwall, 
> | therefore, it's not like a complete replacement..
> 
> FWIW, I was a long time and happy Smoothwall user until I had need to
> use PPTP to connect to VPN servers.  Smoothwall will tolerate one PPTP
> connection, but gets very confused if you attempt to connect more then
> one PPTP client to a remote server.  I did not have time to try to
> install custom kernel modules and play iptable games, so I elected to
> replace my smoothie with a Netgear FVS318 router.  Works great.  I gave
> up some features (port forwarding on the Netgear can not use different
> port numbers on the RED and GREEN interfaces, and I've had to install an
> internal DNS server instead of being able to use Smoothwall's /etc/host
> based DNS proxy), but it worked fine out of the box with about 5 minutes
> of configurationq.  About $100 street price.

Back when I was doing pptp, I was building custom kernels for my 
firewalls, and I do recall this was a necessity for pptp, although I was 
doing it anyway, and just included it.  I also recall having to modify 
my ipchains at the time as well.

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Until later, Geoffrey                     Registered Linux User #108567
Building secure systems in spite of Microsoft