Nathan, I would have to say go with IPCop. Small download, about 50 megs I think, for the ISO. It is so easy to manage and patch, backup, upgrade, etc. I had a play with MNF once but ran away when it just would not work out of the box on the stuff I had at the time, and I have not been back. If it doesn't JFW or JFW pretty darn quick I will move on to something that does, I can't fart about in shells editing bit and bobs; that is what the install script is for. Maybe it was just me, or I did not RTFM enough with MNF, but I hated it. It was at least 2 years ago too, so maybe things have changed.
An alternative that looks promising is the Netboz firewall. It runs from the CD and loads config from floppy, there is a hack to load onto a hard drive, but it is made to run from a CD. That way there is no media that can be written to if the box gets owned. The theory is, you just turn it off and on again. I have not tried it, but it looked good. Ciao, Dave -----Original Message----- From: Nathan Cook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 25 February 2004 10:09 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: IPCop or Mandrake Network Firewall I've been using Smoothwall and I have read some of the websites around about the owner of the product and his attitude, I'm now going to change to something else and I'm tossing up between IPCop and MNF, I've had a quick play with MNF in VMWare and it looks like it would do everything I want it to do, DMZ etc, port forwarding and what not... although I couldn't find an option to block ICMP ping anyone know if the option exists? I haven't used IPCop at all, has anyone on this list used both and can offer advice on what is the better of the 2 perhaps? The box it'll be running on will be a P2 300mhz 64mb Ram with an 8gig drive (although that may change to a 2gig drive) with 3 NIC's. Thanks for the help in advance. Cheers Nathan --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.593 / Virus Database: 376 - Release Date: 2/20/2004
