[Gllug] Opinions on Smoothwall and other firewalls

[Robert Wood]

I use smoothwall on my home adsl connection and have converted two of my
work colleagues to use it, i cannot fault it, and to be honest rate it
highly, admitedly Richard Morrel is a bit abusive, but you get used to it,
the mailing lists are a good source of information and a lot of helpful
people are there to help.

Robert Wood                    Data Centre Support Technician
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7531 8700      Fax: +44 (0) 20 7531 8701
Redbus Interhouse (UK) Ltd.    http://www.interhouse.redbus.com
Registered in England no.      3607764


> -----Original Message-----
> From: gllug-admin at linux.co.uk [mailto:gllug-admin at linux.co.uk]On Behalf
> Of Bruce Richardson
> Sent: 05 October 2001 10:48
> To: gllug at linux.co.uk
> Subject: Re: [Gllug] Opinions on Smoothwall and other firewalls
>
>
> 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
> > use.
>
> Smoothwall has caused a lot of excitement on uk.comp.os.linux.  Not
> because of the quality of the product - serious doubts have been raised
> about its security - but because of the antics of the development team.
> The lead developer is mentally unstable and childishly abusive.  They
> recently tried to mess with the license in a way that would have broken
> the GPL and violated the license terms of much of the open source code it
> is based on.  They refused for some time to release the code of the
> latest version - in violation of the GPL.  When challenged on these
> violations they lied, on Usenet and on their website.  The support
> community is craven and passive because of the behaviour of Richard
> Morrell (the above-mentioned nutter), who is apt to shout, scream and ban
> people at random.  The rest of the development team are more normal but
> persist in a) denying any violation of the GPL b) pretending that Richard
> Morrell is a sane and reasonable human being and c) insisting that black
> is white if the alternative is a bollocking from Richard.
>
> Whatever the actual quality of the code (something which their behaviour
> has made difficult to assess), the quality of the support (and support
> community) is a vital component of an open source product like
> Smoothwall.
>
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>
> Bruce
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