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| Thread ID: 121689 | 2011-11-06 23:02:00 | New IPcop / Smoothwall box? | Renegade (16270) | Press F1 |
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| 1242311 | 2011-11-06 23:02:00 | Looking to get a new box to replace an ancient Compaq Proliant 800 running IPcop (it's basically overloaded: 4GB scsi drive, 128 or 256mb ECC ram, etc), would something like this fit the bill? www.pp.co.nz Not sure whether to change from IPcop to Smoothwall or Endian (www.endian.com)? Mostly used to log sites visited, track data usage, and block access to certain sites that staff shouldn't be mucking around on during work hours :D |
Renegade (16270) | ||
| 1242312 | 2011-11-07 00:12:00 | Have a look at Untangle if that's all you use the box for. They have the recommended specs on their site for the number of users. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 1242313 | 2011-11-07 00:54:00 | I've done all that from a Tomato Router, cost about 1/3 -> 1/4 that price :D | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1242314 | 2011-11-07 01:09:00 | I've done all that from a Tomato Router, cost about 1/3 -> 1/4 that price :D Can it do spam filtering, virus / malware scanning and adblocking as well? Since we've moved a few of our clients to Untangle (the free Lite version) we haven't had a single issue with malware on the workstations. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 1242315 | 2011-11-07 02:06:00 | Nope, but that's not what Renegade was wanting to do :D I found that it did a pretty poor job of spam filtering when I set it up for an Exchange server at one clients place. Aside from that, Untangle was pretty good :) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1242316 | 2011-11-07 02:52:00 | Will check em out thanks! Ipcop has blacklists for a whole bunch of things, like pron, social networking, webmail, forums, etc, so Untangle looks promising. Anything that saves their bandwidth is a plus :D | Renegade (16270) | ||
| 1242317 | 2011-11-07 09:22:00 | IPfire seems the be the uptodate replacement for IPCop. | HAL9000 (12736) | ||
| 1242318 | 2011-11-07 19:34:00 | That looks interesting, will download & have a play. How about the server box in my first post - suitable? Will serve around 20-30 users. |
Renegade (16270) | ||
| 1242319 | 2011-11-07 19:49:00 | wiki.ipfire.org is the place to go fore hardware requirements. Initial impressions I have are that the HP ProLiant MicroServer will be just fine, although it will need a second network card and a second HDD for RAID 1. | HAL9000 (12736) | ||
| 1242320 | 2011-11-07 19:53:00 | Oh just a point, make sure you thoroughly test it before going live, or at least give yourself a fallback system to switch out. I had a problem at one site where the new hardware build had a weird issue where the box would lose routing after a week or two. Rebooting resolved this, reinstalling did not make the problem go away so I switched to Endian at this site. Issue gone but still makes me wonder what was going on. I reiterate this was one of three sites, and the only one with this issue. The other two sites work just fine with 6 months or more between reboots. |
HAL9000 (12736) | ||
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