MNF vs. Smoothwall

Crashed_Again · 09-13-2003, 05:08 AM

Hello all. I will soon be getting a pc that would be able to run either smoothwall or Mandrake Network Firewall. Its just for my home lan but I will be running a server and also have a few clients on the lan besides the server. I was really set on using Smoothwall to make a good dedicated firewall but I've read a bit about MNF and heard nothing but good reviews.

I just wanted to get some feedback from people who have used both MNF and Smoothwall. Which do you prefer and why?

XavierP · 09-13-2003, 06:47 AM

I have used neither - but I have heard (on this site?) that Smoothwall is the better option.

Crashed_Again · 09-15-2003, 06:28 PM

I've also heard about IPCOP. Anything on this?

phoeniXflame · 09-16-2003, 12:33 PM

http://www.ipcop.org is a far better choice imo to smoothwall because (unlike smoothwall) ipcop is 100% free and does not have a 'corp version' so all development is put into the version that YOU can download, therefore your getting a far superior product to smoothwall without paying the fee for their 'payed for' version

its excellent, provides a very high level of security for something so simple to use, check it out

atabapo · 09-16-2003, 06:48 PM

I've only used smoothwall, and I really liked it.
IPCop looks quite promising though.