On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 12:53 -0400, David Nalley wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org on behalf of Craig White Sent: Wed 8/16/2006 11:22 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] proxy server - ipcop vs CentOS
I have purchased a used Compaq DL360 which I was going to use as a proxy server. Presently, we are using a cheap box with ipcop which is working fine but it didn't have much RAM (64MB), etc.
IPCop itself doesn't need much. I have it installed on 3 machines, "lowest" is an AMD 5x86 100MHz (equiv to a 486DX?) with 32MB. A DX/2 66MHz aptiva with 32MB and a 200MHz Pentium with 64MB (I know, so wastful... just for now). The slowest (66MHz) with 3C509 half-duplex ISA NICS gets 477K bytes/sec off my cable modem. The fastest gets me almost 700KB (670, 680, ... depending on source site).
But I don't run anything but IPCop on those units. I have no idea what will happen if you start running other services on the firewall.
This new box we will want to run squid and perhaps dansguardian for filtering (this is a non-profit company) and I'm wondering if I should just put ipcop on it or would it be smarter/better to install CentOS 4, squid and I see Dag has dansguardian package which suggests that I might get more and better options from this.
Anyone have opinions on ipcop vs. CentOS
I like IPCop a lot. It's stable, supports several different configurations and is priced right and runs on about anything.
Craig
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