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David Bell wrote: | I spent ages trying to set up IPCop but it just wouldn't connect through | the Creative router. I desperation I tried Smoothwall and within 10 | minutes the system was up and working. Three questions: | | Are they as effective as one another technically? Anyone tried both?
Having been part of both the IPCOP and Smoothwall support teams, I find myself in quite a strong position to answer this question.
IPCOP was a fork of the original Smoothwall project back in the 0.99 days of smoothwall... a team of developers got bored waiting for V1.0 to be out and decided to go out and do it themselves.
~From a technial aspect the differences (off the top of my head) are as follow;
IPCOP has a greater availablity for VPN client using the OpenSwan as opposed to the FreeSWAN project used by Smoothwall.
IPCOP supports multiple external IP addresses, where as Smoothwall only supports this in the Corporate version (and who wants to pay for it eh ?)
Basically IMO ipcop v1.4 is a better product than smoothwall express v2.0 it has a lot of features only available in the corporate version of smoothwall.
| I used a twisted pair between laptop and the Box just for setting up. | However, I have an ad hoc network with two boxes, plus a "flying" cable | for the laptop if needs be, eth0 connected to a switch and then eth0 to | the firewall box. Should this final cable be twisted?
bit lost with all those wires... maybe i'll look at this when I have eaten.. sugar levels will go up then !!
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