Subject: Re: IpCop/Smoothwall for Small Business
From: i_robot (i-robot@gci.net)
Date: Thu Oct 31 2002 - 21:08:07 AKST
Hey Justin, if the company can dish out a small amount of cash, You should
check out Astaro.
http://www.astaro.com
It offers alot more than Smoothwal and ipcop. (Virus dection and what not).
I'd use it, but I don't have anything over 300mHz to run it on....
Adam
----- Original Message -----
From: "Justin Dieters" <enderak@gci.net>
To: <aklug@aklug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 4:31 PM
Subject: IpCop/Smoothwall for Small Business
>
> The company I work for is going to be expanding quite a bit in the
> coming months, and I am looking into settiong up an IPCop or Smoothwall
> machine mainly to firewall our network and to provide DHCP services.
> Currently we just have each machine connected to a switch, which is
> connected to an ACS DSL modem and each computer connects with PPPOE
> individually. There are about 12 computers and a couple printers
> connected right now, with about 6 more computers and a new printer or
> two expected to be on the network.
>
> Right now I'm just looking for opinions on IPCop vs. Smoothwall GPL vs.
> Smoothwall Corporate. I currently use Smoothwall GPL at home, and I've
> heard lots of good things about IPCop, so mainly I'm interested in
> opinions on Smoothwall Corporate, and any 'words-of-warning' on IPCop. ;)
>
> Thanks,
> Justin
>
>
>
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