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[Dan Will]

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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.

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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

The difference between fiction and reality?
Fiction has to make sense.
Tom Clancy



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