[Glastonbury] broadband

[Rick Fitzsimmons]

I switched from Smoothwall to IPCop some time ago. No regrets, but it's 
on a P133 with 40M, and I wouldn't go any lower than that.

You could take a look at m0n0wall on http://m0n0.ch/wall/ if you want 
something very small and light. I've heard good reports and been meaning 
to try it out myself, but had no time recently.

Rick.


Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> 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Or anyone who wants to run Linux on one of those proverbial out of date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
> 
> 
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