Linux Router with Firewall

[Craig White]

On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 13:07 -0600, Jeff Vian wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 07:10 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> > On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 21:32 -0500, David-Paul Niner wrote:
> > 
> > > If you don't mind dedicating a box solely to this effort, you could try
> > > the GPL'd version
> > > of smoothwall, which is available here:
> > > 
> > > http://www.smoothwall.org
> > > 
> > > As I understand it, their relationship to the commercial product that
> > > Smoothwall, Ltd.
> > > sells is similar to the Fedora Project's relationship to RHEL:  the
> > > former is a testing
> > > grounds for the later (although it doesn't appear to be as "open" a
> > > process).
> > > 
> > > For what it's worth I run the commercial version on my home network and
> > > haven't
> > > had any issues at all.   And no, no one is paying me to say this!
> > ----
> > this is a bit afield from OP's question but I have found ipcop
> > <http://www.ipcop.org> to be a better system than smoothwall.
> > 
> It may be somewhat better in ways, but it has an annual fee associated
> with it.
> 
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maybe I'm stupid but all I have seen is GNU GPL license and have never
seen annual fee (I am presuming we are talking ipcop). Am I missing
something?

Craig


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