[Lancaster] Firewall distros..

[Dave Smith]

Wayne,

Yeh, Smoothwall's pretty nice - I used it back on version 2 for a good 
while on an old 433 for a good while, then stopped due to house 
renovations. Recently reinvigorated my parents old desktop PC (PIII of 
some description) which is running it solidly along with 4 NICs (1 to 
the ADSL Modem; 1 to DMZ; 1 to Wireless; 1 to Internal Network).

I haven't brought the DMZ live on this box just yet due to my server 
being too noisy to tuck away anywhere but it worked fine at Version 2!

My only gripe with smoothwall is that, due to its nature, it's bigger 
and needs more than it perhaps could do - but without the time to play 
with IPTables probably here it serves it's purpose well! And, I have to 
admit, I'm a sucker for a well put together GUI!

Haven't had chance to play with any of the mods for it yet - not really 
had a need.

Be interesting to hear any experiences you have with it.

Dave

P.S. I'm pretty certain I can make it next month for the LUG meet, finally!

Wayne Ward wrote:
> Hi guys im just putting a firewall in for a local company im using
> smoothwall 3 express
> nice and easy install and a not to complicated gui - i did play around with
> ipcop at first and it worked 
> but when i went to put it into place it failed like three times? so im
> going to try the smoothwall install tomorrow
> anybody else used and linux firewall distros that are worth a mention..
> I used to just build a gentoo box and build a iptables script and add some
> other packages snort etc but 
> dont have time to manage it as much.
>