[H-GEN] Best Easy Firewall

Rob Unsworth rob at unsworth.net
Tue May 7 00:38:35 EDT 2002


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On 7 May 2002, Hilton Travis wrote:

>
>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.

The impression i got from the Smoothwall site is that they still use a
2.2.xx kernel and ipchains with apparently no intent to upgrade, and have
plans for an ipchains config tool.

I hope that is wrong.

Rob.


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