FreeSCO vs. SmoothWall

[Net Llama!]

On Wed, 22 May 2002, Tim Wunder wrote:
> On 5/22/2002 10:50 AM, someone claiming to be Net Llama! wrote:
> > I'm in the process of setting up a firewall/router box, and i've reduced
> > my choices to Freesco & Smoothwall.  I'd like some input from anyone who
> > has used them on pro's & cons.
> >
> >
> > thanks!
> >
>
> Freesco was a piece of cake to set up to use my cable modem. If you want to export some services, port forwarding is easy enough. It just plain runs. It painlessly handled Comcast's migration from the @home service to their own comcast.net service. Gets my IP via DHCP. I've got it running on a P100 with 32 MB Ram, 2 NICs and a floppy. No hd required.
>
> Haven't tried Smoothwall.

Two questions:
1) Do you know where I can get the extra modules package?  Seems like its
disapeared since freesco changed domains, and i need the eepro100  module
for my NICs.
2) Is it simply a matter of copying the floppy image to a HD, or how
involved is it to get this running somewhere other than the floppy?

thanks!

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