[Gllug] Opinions on Smoothwall and other firewalls

[Walid]

 --- John Hearns <john.hearns at framestore.co.uk> wrote: > Bruce Richardson
wrote:
> 
> >On 10/5/01, 10:12:22 AM, Peter Chauncy <Peter.Chauncy at PoplarHarca.co.uk> 
> >wrote regarding [Gllug] Opinions on Smoothwall and other firewalls:
> >
> >>I am looking for a firewall to sit between a  2Mbit leased line and a
> >>network of about 80 odd PCs.  I just discovered Smoothwall
> >>http://www.smoothwall.org from a search on Google and it seems really
> >>interesting.  Does anyone have any experience with it, and resultant
> >>opinions ?  What are the alternatives ? From my reading of the
> >>documentation, smoothwall's big advantage over alternatives is its ease 
> >>
> >of
> >
> 
> 
> I would  seriously  advise you to look a little bit further:
> 
> Contact Tushar at Turtle Networks. He I'm sure can configure a good firewall
> for you, based on BSD.

That is the way to go OpenBSD, I like that :)

> http://www.turtle.net
> 
> 
> Also contact Anthony at Rockstone Linux.
> I talked to them at Linux Expo, and their firewalls are very, very
> cost effective.
> http://www.rockstone.co.uk/
> 
> 
> 
> We eventually settled on a product called the Netscreen -
> but these and come with Ethernet interfaces.
> 
> 
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