comparing e-smith/smoothwall/clarkconnect

Paul

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Mar 7, 2003, 2:08:25 AM3/7/03

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Hi,
Has anyone out there seen/or performed a comparison of e-smith, smoothwall
and clarkconnect (and any other firewall/gateway orientated distros)?
I am currently using e-smith, but was wondering what other people have
experienced, and why they chose the OS they are using.

Cheers,
Paul.

Paul

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Mar 7, 2003, 2:21:15 AM3/7/03

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ah, ok.
a quick look seems that it may be unfair to compare smoothwall to
clarkconnect and e-smith.

should've spent the time to look before i posted. sorry.

Paul.

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BobT

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Mar 7, 2003, 3:47:52 AM3/7/03

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Paul wrote:
> ah, ok.
> a quick look seems that it may be unfair to compare smoothwall to
> clarkconnect and e-smith.
>
> should've spent the time to look before i posted. sorry.

Yeah, both Clark and Smith are good at what they do, and a lot easier
for non-tech people to administer.
As a general rule though, Clark is slightly more complete (includes
Snort IDS, for example) but requires more knowledge on the part of the
administrator. If you want a server/gateway for yourself, but don't want
to have to put an effort into administering it, Clark's the go.

On the other hand, E-Smith is very close in features to Clark, but is
easier for a person who doesn't know anything about unix to run. This
one's best suited to third-party systems where someone with tech skills
does the initial setup, then the non-tech locals look after their part
of the system (adding logins, ibays etc) via user-manager. They never
need to get their hands dirty.

HTH,

BobT

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> Paul.
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> "Paul" <po...@blackmerlin.net.invalid> wrote in message
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>>Hi,
>>Has anyone out there seen/or performed a comparison of e-smith, smoothwall
>>and clarkconnect (and any other firewall/gateway orientated distros)?
>>I am currently using e-smith, but was wondering what other people have
>>experienced, and why they chose the OS they are using.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>Paul.
>>
>>
>
>
>

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Mar 7, 2003, 4:35:43 AM3/7/03

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I prefer to have my firewall separate, so a smoothwall distro on a 486
box would work fine, and either e-smith or clarkconnect behind the
firewall for shareing things would be preferred, IMHO.

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jj

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Mar 8, 2003, 4:05:41 AM3/8/03

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i choose clarkconnect because it works well with bpa cable with bpalogin gui
interface plus all the other features like proxy and mail

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Paul Gear

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Mar 9, 2003, 2:39:57 PM3/9/03

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The only thing i would point out is that the stable versions of
smoothwall (1.0 and below) are based on the Linux 2.2 kernel, which has
inferior firewalling capabilities to the 2.4 kernel.

Because Shoreline Firewall (http://shorewall.sf.net) is such a great
product, i find it hard to use anything else for my routers. :-)

PDG