[ale] Smoothwall 2.0 or IPCop 1.3.0?

[Keith Morris - IQ]

James,
I use Smoothwall 2.0 express beta (I know the release version is out, 
but haven't got around to upgrading) here at the office with about 40 
workstations and laptops pushing through it.  It has run flawlessly from 
the start.  There are good community forums for smoothwall as well.

I also replaced a linksys router with this box.  It's nice to be able to 
recycle a Pentium 200 and make it a super-stable and fast firewall.

I have never used IPCop, so can't give any experience there.

Hope this helps.

--
Keith Morris
Creative Director
Design / Effects
IQ Television Group
http://www.iqtv.com

James Sumners wrote:
> I am considering replacing a Linksys WRT54G with a Linux box. The Linksys is
> working fine but it doesn't quite cut it. My question to you is, would you
> recommend Smoothwall 2.0 over IPCop 1.3.0 or vice versa? I don't really want to
> sit down and write my own firewall scripts and web front end when there is
> already a solution.
> 
> I know that IPCop is a fork of Smoothwall but it forked a long time ago. I will
> be playing with both of them in a virtual environment but it may be some time
> before I get that set up and I would like to know if someone already has an
> opinion of one over the other (e.g. this one does this where that one doesn't
> type stuff).
> 
> 
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