The last thread had lots of talk about different linux based turn your old pc into router software
at one point i was on a hunt for all the different ones available to find the "perfect" one but realized none of them are perfect.
My first encounter was FreeSco really coola cool basic fw/ router. i was not to good with ipfwadm or ipchains ( idont remember) sometimes when i made a change it should take affect right away but did not until reboot, that was v 3.2, they are 4 or 4.1 i think but have not checkedit out.
m0n0wall, cool but lacked features i was looking for, i dont even remember what features i was looking for at the time!! soon took the fork of m0n0wall and went to Pfsense
Tried PfSence, but seemed to slow for my box, dont remember what version but was several years ago.
Untangle - from what i was able to check out seemed cool as hell, just never had spare pc fast engouh for all of it and its java.
been using ipcop for while now and have liked it the best so far,very reliable on the pIII, i love the features, the way it boots, backups, logs, fw, ids, support for zoneedit ddns, etc. only drawback is thre are not much activity on it so not many updates.
looking Ipfire screenshots and looks neat, i might try this one.
at one point i was on a hunt for all the different ones available to find the "perfect" one but realized none of them are perfect.
My first encounter was FreeSco really coola cool basic fw/ router. i was not to good with ipfwadm or ipchains ( idont remember) sometimes when i made a change it should take affect right away but did not until reboot, that was v 3.2, they are 4 or 4.1 i think but have not checkedit out.
m0n0wall, cool but lacked features i was looking for, i dont even remember what features i was looking for at the time!! soon took the fork of m0n0wall and went to Pfsense
Tried PfSence, but seemed to slow for my box, dont remember what version but was several years ago.
Untangle - from what i was able to check out seemed cool as hell, just never had spare pc fast engouh for all of it and its java.
been using ipcop for while now and have liked it the best so far,very reliable on the pIII, i love the features, the way it boots, backups, logs, fw, ids, support for zoneedit ddns, etc. only drawback is thre are not much activity on it so not many updates.
looking Ipfire screenshots and looks neat, i might try this one.
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