FreeSCO vs. SmoothWall

[Matthew Carpenter]

Things I like to look for in Firewall solutions:  Are they connection
tracking (ie. do they use Linux 2.4 kernel)?  Smoothwall DID NOT last I
knew.  I don't know anything about Freesco.

On Wed, 22 May 2002 12:00:28 -0400
"Tim Wunder" <tim at thewunders.org> 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.
> 
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