[Glastonbury] broadband

[Andrew M.A. Cater]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 09:49:35PM +0000, Jordan Elver wrote:
> On Thursday 20 November 2003 21:33, Martin WHEELER wrote:
> > On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Kelvin McNulty wrote:
> > > This web site:
> > >
> > > http://www.ipcop.org
> > >
> > > is of interest to anyone who wants to set up a firewall for use on
> > > broadband.
> > >
> > > Or anyone who wants to run Linux on one of those proverbial out of date
> > > boxes.
> > >
> > > They do a version of Linux that will run on a 486 or even a 386 box.
> >
> > Yes, Kelvin.
> >
> > But have you actually tried doing it?
> 
> Try smoothwall.org. I've been running various versions for a couple of years. 
> Very professional IMHO.
> 
> Cheers,
> Jordan
> 
Be aware: IPCop is a fork of Smoothwall because Smoothwall were being
difficult about GPL IIRC. [Smoothwall've since gone on to produce an
expensive "commercial" firewall]

The Smoothwall folk also have a reputation for abruptness bordering on
outright rudeness and have displayed contempt for new users in my 
(limited) experience.

There was also a lot of unpleasantness when IPCop forked.

IPCop won't work, in current versions, with under 24M of memory, 
potentially.  See the FAQ and installation instructions.

It also needs 125M + 2*RAM of disk space, so my 486 with 12M and 100M
disk won't cut it :(

Andy