Untangle is pretty nice. It is far more CPU and Memory hungry than other distros (I don't recommend installing it on a system with less than 1 GB of RAM) and it doesn't have the fine-grain control of IPCop or Monowall or pfSense, but it does anti-spam, anti-phishing, anti-virus, web (content) filtering, and protocol blocking (like blocking P2P software) and can operate in "transparent mode" if required. That's what we primarily use it for. It isn't ideal for multi-WAN or multi-LAN setups, however. That's why I'm using pfSense in my new router I'm building, because I have 4 WAN connections and 5 LAN networks. I have 4 Untangle VM's sitting in "transparent" mode on 4 of those LAN networks, doing all the filtering mentioned above. PfSense is doing the real "routing" stuff (like load-balancing 4 WAN connections with different rules for each LAN network.) Chris
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Kevin Hart <bowl...@gmail.com> wrote: > And honestly Id love to see a demo of untangle. Ive thought about going > away from IPCop for a while....she's been good for me for like 5 years now > it seems But always interested in different router projects :) > > -- > -Kevin > > "You can't turn a pig into a thoroughbred, > but if you spend enough time and money, > you sure can make a mighty fast pig" > > > > On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Chris McQuistion <cmcquist...@watkins.edu > > wrote: > >> I could do a brief presentation on Clarkconnect, our Linux >> file/email/ftp/web server that we use a lot, here at work. I could also >> talk briefly about iSCSI distributions I've used and the pluses and minuses >> of them (Openfiler and NexentaStor.) >> I'd love to do a presentation on the "super router" I'm building right >> now, using VMWare, pfSense, and Untangle, but it is still in the building >> and testing phase. >> >> Chris >> >> >> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 11:03 PM, Kevin Eldridge <crash...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> >>> Hello NLUG, >>> >>> It's me, your friendly neighborhood Linux Users Group President! We >>> have a situation, which have ran into the in the past and will run >>> into in the future. The need for a presenter for March 2009. With the >>> diverse set of talent we have in this group, I thought that someone >>> would want to step forward and present this month. From our >>> "Brainstorm ideas for presentations" page, we have the following >>> suggestions for meeting topics: >>> >>> * OpenID >>> >>> * Spacewalk >>> >>> * Podcasting with entirely FOSS software >>> >>> * Writing Documentation using TeX or XML, or Docbook formats >>> >>> * Backups for home-type users >>> >>> * Openmoko >>> >>> * Enterprise Applications on an OSS base >>> >>> - Interwoven TeamSite - Andrew Farnsworth and / or Rob Huffstedler >>> >>> - Oracle >>> >>> - DB2 >>> >>> - WebSphere >>> >>> * How to build a home NAS (or file/print/whatever server) >>> >>> * VoIP >>> >>> - How to build a Trixbox/FreePBX system (or other basic VoIP system) >>> >>> - OpenSIPS/Kamilio/OpenSER >>> >>> - SipX >>> >>> * Linux routers using Zebra/Quagga or Vyatta >>> >>> * MythTV howto >>> >>> * iSCSI/SAN howto >>> >>> * HA/DRBD howto >>> >>> * Network Management howto (OpenNMS, Groundwork, etc) >>> >>> - Nagios + Cacti integration (the 2 most recognized FOSS >>> monitoring applications and their abilities along with integration >>> together and other things such as syslog, and weathermap reporting) >>> >>> * Ultimate Home Server >>> >>> - VoIP (Asterisk / Trixbox) >>> >>> - PVR (MythTV) >>> >>> - File Server (Samba, NFS, AFS, etc) >>> >>> - Print Server (CUPS, Samba, etc) >>> >>> - RAID (Hardware vs Software) >>> >>> * Control Systems >>> >>> - Home control (lights, shades, lawn sprinklers, etc) I can >>> present on this in November for basic Lighting setups. —stahnma >>> >>> - Equipment control and interfacing (CNC, 'robots', etc) >>> >>> - Real Time Linux (hard real time, vs soft real time, vs >>> interactive) with examples >>> >>> * Programming on Linux (C/C++, ASM, Java, Ruby/RoR, PHP, Perl, Python, >>> Lisp/Scheme) >>> >>> - Cross-Platform Programming built in Linux >>> >>> * LFS (Linux From Scratch) >>> >>> * openSUSE 11 (SUSE has come a long way in this newest release!) >>> >>> * How to set up a complete Linux Email/Collaboration Servers such as >>> Open-Xchange, Zimbra, and Scalix >>> >>> Some of you have already presented on these topics. I think just about >>> everyone wants to see the MythBuntu session again. You may already >>> have a Linux, UNIX, or Open Source presentation you want to present >>> on. Step up and offer to present to a great group of like-minded Linux >>> Users. >>> >>> Kevin Eldridge >>> >>> NLUG President >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
