Re: [IPCop-devel] Announcement: IPCop v1.3 beta4

[stinga <st...@wo...>]

On 13.04.2003 06:05 Darren Critchley wrote:
> Perhaps the possibility of
> selecting your own swap size during install would be nice.
> Darren


I am not sure this is a good idea.
There seems to be at least 3 different users of IPCop, which I shall 
call... user, expert and commercial.

User: Probably a windows user that wants a fit and forget product, 
maybe a new 'network' user.

Expert: Someone with more experience and probably know what they are 
doing, want's learn or want's something a bit out of the ordinary.

Commercial: Same as expert, but want's a few other options, like 
outbound port blocking, stats to show PHB's etc.

Allowing a 'user' to have to specify a swap size would only confuse 
them.
If this is done I would go for a help notice a nd default value, with 
some test to say, if you are not sure what you want then pick the 
default.


On a side note, it might be worth thinking of where IPcop should be and 
what it wants to be, I think at the moment IPCop is somewhere between 
User and Expert.
IPCop can do Commercial but not via the web interface, it takes unix 
level knowledge and most Commercial wants are supported via addonz.
Not that this bad...

I also think that Commercial can't be supported on the minimum spec 
IPCop firewall. (But I will prpbably be proved wrong :-)
Also, Commercial would probably go on a fairly new machine since 
Commercial users would not want to spend timae and money on obsolete 
kit, they are most likely to have PIII machine's around to proess into 
service.

That's enough rambling for one Sunday...

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