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Sign up with GoogleSmoothwall or IPCOP?
- Thread starter terencevs
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While I haven't used IPCop and have found Smoothie to be dead easy, even first time up, depending on what your needs are, IPCop may be the one to stick to ..specially if you plan (at some stage) to put a wi-fi card in (for the 'blue' interface) as it caters for that option out of the box; something that SmoothWall seems to lack.
Smoothies rule, the firewall not the drink, i have tried both and find Smoothwall to be far more intuitive for me anyway, there are also plenty addons for smoothwall as are there for Ipcop, so in the end it boils down to preference.
My smoothwall is about 8 months old, almost never have to log into it (just to change accounts when im capped
), it just works, but so does Ipcop so try both and decide.
Good luck
My smoothwall is about 8 months old, almost never have to log into it (just to change accounts when im capped
), it just works, but so does Ipcop so try both and decide.Good luck
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My preferences is Smoothwall, and never had any problems so far.
True, Smoothwall does have fewer "out of the box" options than IPCop, but you can always add extra functionality if you want to do so.
From what I've heard, the community at Smoothwall is more active than the IPCop forums.
But it all boils down to what YOU think and feels is best for you.
I like Smoothwall better because it allows me to tinker with it, adding extra functionality should I require it.
For example, I've setup three Smoothies for clients so far :
All have the Dansguardian content filter (block out pr0n sites), and ClamAV antivirus filter.
One have DHCP enabled for both green and orange (it's for a PC shop) thus enabling the technicians to connect virus-infected PC's for online scans without fear of disrupting the other network segment.
The other one runs the mfilter implementation of the dspam statistical mail filter which is designed to block spam. The current implementation uses greylisting which cuts spam down with an impressive 99.99% success rate. Only drawback is that it is currently only scanning SMTP inbound. This one also runs the Guardian Reactive Firewall which blocks bad IP adresses automatically.
On the last two I have installed the Bandview mod, to enable the operator to keep track of bandwidth used so far.
So far I've never had any serious or major downtime with any of these.
But the feature of switching automatically over to uncapped accounts is a nice feature, and one which Smoothwall does not have, you'll have to initiate the switchover manually.
IPCop is a fork of Smoothwall, which means they share some roots.
Regards
Libs
True, Smoothwall does have fewer "out of the box" options than IPCop, but you can always add extra functionality if you want to do so.
From what I've heard, the community at Smoothwall is more active than the IPCop forums.
But it all boils down to what YOU think and feels is best for you.
I like Smoothwall better because it allows me to tinker with it, adding extra functionality should I require it.
For example, I've setup three Smoothies for clients so far :
All have the Dansguardian content filter (block out pr0n sites), and ClamAV antivirus filter.
One have DHCP enabled for both green and orange (it's for a PC shop) thus enabling the technicians to connect virus-infected PC's for online scans without fear of disrupting the other network segment.
The other one runs the mfilter implementation of the dspam statistical mail filter which is designed to block spam. The current implementation uses greylisting which cuts spam down with an impressive 99.99% success rate. Only drawback is that it is currently only scanning SMTP inbound. This one also runs the Guardian Reactive Firewall which blocks bad IP adresses automatically.
On the last two I have installed the Bandview mod, to enable the operator to keep track of bandwidth used so far.
So far I've never had any serious or major downtime with any of these.
But the feature of switching automatically over to uncapped accounts is a nice feature, and one which Smoothwall does not have, you'll have to initiate the switchover manually.
IPCop is a fork of Smoothwall, which means they share some roots.
Regards
Libs
terencevs said:
AS you have said you have already decided to go with IPCop.
I think it boils down to which you have used more. I tried Smoothwall once but becasue i had used IPcop and know how to do stuff I stuck with it.
If you have a need for it Anti Virus and Spam try out Copfilter. I use it and works great.
The Lib. Interesting to see what you are doing with your installs. gives me some ideas for my install