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| Thread ID: 30163 | 2003-02-12 03:50:00 | Best linux server os for Internet sharing and firewalling | JoGiles (1898) | Press F1 |
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| 120503 | 2003-02-12 03:50:00 | Hey everyone, as you may know, I am about to get jetstart, and have a spare computer ready to put software on so I can share the internet over my network. I want to use Jetstart, which uses a PPPoA connection. The options i know of are: Smoothwall, SME Server Mandrake SNF What are your preferences, and please help me decide. Thanks heaps! Jonathan |
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| 120504 | 2003-02-12 07:33:00 | Hey JoGiles, Of those you mention I have only used Smoothwall (which is now at GPL1 . 0) and have found it to be quite good . I have been playing with Mandrake 9 . 0 for the past 4 months and have found that even when set-up as a Server/Workstation with the security set to Higher during the initial install is quite amazing . I'm rather impressed as I have done a few scans and it has been transparent . If Mandrakes normal distro can easily be set-up like that I would imagine that their SNF product should be rather good as well . |
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| 120505 | 2003-02-12 07:49:00 | I've found IPcop (http://www.ipcop.org) to be much better than Smoothwall. Smoothwall is actually developed by a company and so they take out features which they only give you if you buy the commercial version. | segfault (655) | ||
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