smoothwall vs ipcop? which one is better?

yenonn · 03-16-2005, 11:47 PM

which one is better in term of security??? pls comment, thanks...

scuzzman · 03-17-2005, 12:06 AM

Security is in the hands of the admin.
Neither product performs better per se, but it's how they're configured. I'd suggest trying both and making an educated decision.

ironwalker · 03-17-2005, 01:33 AM

There the same right down to the same addons AFAIK.
I always used ipcop.
Im useing it on a cyrex 6 x86 p1

ipcop v 1.4 wont work on it so im useing 1.3

floppywhopper · 03-17-2005, 04:45 PM

Have a look a Monowall
a BSD based firewall
basically the same type of setup

floppy

yenonn · 04-03-2005, 10:13 PM

ipcop 1.4 really cant work..... i really dunno how to use it... too bad....anyone tries before??

ironwalker · 04-04-2005, 01:13 PM

Hmm..what do you mean it cant work?
Hardware wont detect?

Try ipcop 1.3
its got quite a bit of features.

Or monowall as said above.

2damncommon · 04-04-2005, 11:38 PM

When I had problems accessing the Smoothwall site for updates I switched to IPCop. When a current IPCop did not recognize my NIC I switched back to Smoothwall. Really they are so similar that you can switch back and forth if there is a bigger issue in one than in the other. After the initial setup (read their documentation) either is easy to use for a simple network.