Re: Advice Please Sonicwall or IPCop

From: Mike (nospam_at_notherematey.com)
Date: 12/19/03 

Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 09:45:15 -0000

"Andy@nospam.co.uk" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> NeoSadist <neosad1st@charter.net> wrote:
>
> >Andy@nospam.co.uk wrote:
> >
> >> I have been using a Netgear FR318 for about 2 years now quite happily.
> >> Unfortunately Netgear are not doing node upgrades any more and having
just
> >> moved house I want to change from 8 IP addresses to about 25.
> >>
> >> I have been looking at the Sonicwall SOHO 3 50 user or setting up a
spare
> >> PC with IPCop.
> >>
> >> I have no experience with Linux but am happy to have a go if it was
easy
> >> enough to set up (i.e. less than a day for a newbie). The option of the
> >> Sonicwall is nice to save time, diskless and quiet which is nice but
> >> 600GBP is a fair amount to spend if I can set up IPCop in a day.
> >>
> >> IpCop would cost me nothing as I have plenty of spare PCs floating
around.
> >>
> >> Any thoughts, I am looking for simple things, NO VPN, just a DHCP
server,
> >> good protection, easy set up of Netmeeting, CUSeeMe, usual Web usage
ftp,
> >> SMTP, POP, and a simple overall set up.
> >>
> >> TIA
> >>
> >> Andy
> >
> >
> >If this is a home LAN, get the cheapest one, in my opinion. If it's
work,
> >get the most expensive one. This is just my opinion. The only way to
> >truly know which one you want is to compare features, compare online
tests
> >and comparisons, or just try them both yourself. However, price usually
> >follows features / quality.
>
> I agree with your comments about price usually following quality. Problem
> is one option is free the other is not :-) (I work for myself from home
> often connecting to other remote Servers so I guess it would be mainly
> work)
>
> It is not so much about the money as I am not that fussed, more about the
> Sonicwall versus IPCop, which would you recommend ?

My advice is try IPCOP. Its not that difficult and if it doesn't do the job
for you what have you lost? Don't let the fact that it is Linux put you off.
Its dead easy to install and is controlled via a web interface. You will
probably never even see the command prompt.

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