[H-GEN] Best Easy Firewall

[Hilton Travis]

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On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 10:03, Mick Howe wrote:
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> On Tue,  7 May 2002 08:13, Ewan Edwards shouted from the roof tops:
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> > On Monday 06 May 2002 20:42, rodney wrote:
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> > > Hello,
> > >
> > >  Which Firewall is the best , secure and easy for setting ?
> >
> > I'm not going to attempt to answer your question, as such.  What I will do
> > is tell you that I have been using a product called Smoothwall.  It is a
> > specialised Linux distro (approx 22MB ISO) designed specifically to be a
> > firewall and router.  It also has some other features that you can read
> > about here.
> >
> > http://www.smoothwall.org
> >
> > The thing I liked most about it was the ease of setup.  It took me 17min to
> > go from powering up the machine I was installing it on, to being dialed up
> > to the 'net and "surfing" from another machine on my home network.
> 
> I use IPCop, (www.ipcop.org - I think) its a fork from swoothwall. It works 
> and you can get support on the mailling list.
> 
> I tried smoothwall but had a couple of problems setting it up so asked how to 
> solve them on the smoothwall mailing list and copped an abusive tirade from 
> the developer and was blocked from the list.
> 
> /\/\ik

That has all changed quite a bit of late.  I'm one of the moderators on
the mailing lists, and 99% of that sort of crap is dropped before it
hits the list.  I have no problem telling Dick or anyone else that
derogatory and non-productive posts are not welcome on the list.

You will need to be aware that the IPCop team are rather lax with
relation to security updates.  The only reason they released the squid
update was that both Lawrence and myself sent a number of emails to
their team suggesting that they looked at the latest squid advisory and
released an appropriate patch.  This was a few weeks after the advisory
was released.

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Regards,

Hilton Travis


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