On Monday 31 March 2003 07:44 am, Robert Eanes wrote:
>
> I've used freesco, and tried a host of others, but
> didn't find one I liked for various reasons.. ie.
> things were broken or storage(memory or hd) wasn't
> managed well..yadayada. I asked this same question in
> one of the meetings a few months ago, and someone
> suggested I try IPCOP. It is currently based on
> kernel 2.2, but next version to be out shortly will be
> based on 2.4. I've been very pleased with it so far.
> I lot of thought has gone into the organization and
> interface to this distro. I currently have it running
> on an old 66mhz486 with a 540HD and 32meg of memory.
>
There is also Smoothwall http://www.smoothwall.org which IPCOP is based on.
Smoothwall 1.0 is also based on the 2.2 kernel but the 2.0 beta version is
based on 2.4.
Its not a floppy based firewall but it does have a lot of nice features. I
just wish it used a journaled file system in place of ext2.
-- R.G. Mayhue r.g.mayhue@verizon.net
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