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[Ed Liddle]

I have used IPCop with the Copfilter add-on at home. I had it scanning
pop-3 e-mail for spam and virus's. I was running it on an old PIII. It
worked extremly well for tagging spam e-mail and catching viruses on
incoming e-mail but seemed to run slow. 
Earlier this year I switched to Smoothwall express 3  (free version). It
seems to be lighter than IPCop with Copfilter. I now have smoothwall
scanning incoming pop3 e-mail for virus's. I do not have it scanning for
spam. That does play a part in the quickness. One thing I do like about
smoothwall is the real-time traffic graphs and bars. You can see the
current bandwidth usage on the smoothwall interfaces as well as what
each client is using. I have not tried to use any add-ons with
smoothwall yet.

Overall I am quite pleased with Smoothwall.

-Ed Liddle 

On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 16:11 -0500, Dan Will wrote:
> <snip>
> 
> At the libraries I support, I use IPCOP (an open source firewall) that
> includes squid, an http cache (along with numerous other services).
> This helps to conserve bandwidth and helps a lot with Microsoft
> Updates, etc. The setup works very, very well.
> 
> </snip> 
> Chad,
>    Have you tried Smoothwall Linux. I have often heard IPCop & Smoothwall in the same breath. My understanding
> is that IPCop is a fork from the early Smoothwall tree. I have been using Smoothwall for better than a year and a
> half. Smoothwall 3 was released about 4 months ago and the community (Homebrewers) have a pretty good selection 
> of add-ons for it. Smoothwall 3 (Polar) has SCSI support (and works great with the old Gates Foundation server)
> and throttling capabilities built in now. 
> Just curious about your take (I'm not switching from Smoothwall ;^)
> 
> 
> -- 
> Dan Will
> Technology Supervisor
> Meigs County District Public Library
> Pomeroy, Ohio 45769
> 740.992.5813
> 740.992.6140 (fax)
> willda at oplin.org
> 
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> Fiction has to make sense.
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