[KLUG Members] Smoothwall

[Richard Vincent]

Bruce,

Can Smoothwall be used for Internet Filtering? Or is SQUID a better product
for filtering.

Rich
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Smith" <bruce@armintl.com>
To: <members@kalamazoolinux.org>
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 3:29 PM
Subject: Re: [KLUG Members] chartermi cable


> > >>In any event, I've never used dhclient, and I hate pump (it's lacking
> > >>in features and has a useless name), but I am a big fan of dhcpcd.
> > >Here here!!!  (or is it "hear hear"? :)
> > >>Comes by default with Slackware (the distro everyone should be using),
and
> > >>allows you to specify your assigned hostname with the '-h' flag while
> > >>allowing you to leave your "real" hostname set to anything you jolly
well
> > >>please.
> > >I always remove pump from a Redhat install.  Redhat's startup script
> > >looks for pump and if it doesn't find pump, it falls back to dhcpcd,
> > >so no other action is needed other than to remove pump.
> >
> > So what is the advantage of dhcpcd over pump?
>
> 1)  dhcpcd doesn't crash my laptop, pump does about half the time.
>
> 2)  Hostname changes as sent from DHCP server on dhcpcd, not pump.
>     (at least with the default Redhat parameters on each)
>
> 3)  dhcpcd seems to work from DHCP servers where pump won't.
>
> > I think RH6.2 and previous used
> > dhcpcd, as it is what I used to use.  It would infrequently fail to
establish an
> > interface (particularly if you were several hops away from the DHCP
server) and
> > very frequently failed to report correctly whether or not it had
successfully
> > registered the interface  (it would work and say if failed usually).
They
> > switched to pump and all my problems went away.  Needless to say I've
been a
> > pump fan ever since.
> >
> > None of the DHCP clients seem to support option-fetching/enquire which
is a nice
> > feature of the M$ DHCP clients.
>
> Redhat seems to install both dhcpcd and pump most of the time, so if pump
> doesn't work it's as easy as removing pump to try dhcpcd.  Use which works
> for you, that's what I do.
>
> --------------------------------------------
> Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
> System Administrator / Network Administrator
> Armstrong International, Inc.
> Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
> http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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