Things I like to look for in Firewall solutions: Are they connection tracking (ie. do they use Linux 2.4 kernel)? Smoothwall DID NOT last I knew. I don't know anything about Freesco.
On Wed, 22 May 2002 12:00:28 -0400 "Tim Wunder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/22/2002 10:50 AM, someone claiming to be Net Llama! wrote: > > I'm in the process of setting up a firewall/router box, and i've > > reduced my choices to Freesco & Smoothwall. I'd like some input from > > anyone who has used them on pro's & cons. > > > > > > thanks! > > > > Freesco was a piece of cake to set up to use my cable modem. If you want > to export some services, port forwarding is easy enough. It just plain > runs. It painlessly handled Comcast's migration from the @home service > to their own comcast.net service. Gets my IP via DHCP. I've got it > running on a P100 with 32 MB Ram, 2 NICs and a floppy. No hd required. > > Haven't tried Smoothwall. > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list - > http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the > above URL. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
