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Should IPCop users switch to IPFire due to the slow evolution pace of IPCop?

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Support for Gigabit NICs
JimmyWallBuilder	#1 Posted on 02/02/2010 - 02:52
Member Posts: 1 Joined: 02.02.10	I recently built a little atom based system for my firewall/router at home. I used an Intel Pro GT 1000 PCI card. To my dismay Smoothwall express 3.0 polar would not support this card. The two things I took away from other forums were: a) The gigabit NICs are perhaps too 'new' to be supported and An experienced Linux type person could likely install the driver from the intel site and carry on happily. I chose Smoothwall initially as it was billed as the perfect operating system for the non Linux user but gives the security advantage of a Linux based firewall. As I have never seen Linux in any environment I was hoping this was the wall for me. Eventually I loaded PFsense and it worked fine. However, it seems to be relatively high level networking gear and I am slow to learn how to tweak it. Hopefully it works fine out of the box. Any advice on getting smoothwall to work? Or should I stick with pfsense? Is pfsense full of holes without the proper setup tweaks?

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