[Gllug] Opinions on Smoothwall and other firewalls

[Dylan]

On Friday 05 October 2001 10:12, you wrote:
> 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.
> Any thoughts gratefully appreciated
>
> Peter Chauncy
> Community IT, Poplar HARCA, 167A EastIndia Dock Road, London E14 0EA
> 020 7510 0562
> peter.chauncy at poplarharca.co.uk

Hi

I use Smoothwall at thr moment - it's OK and stable, but not too configurable 
(although it allows you to swap between different connections if u need to)

An alternative is E-Smith Server Gateway which has mail / http / shared 
resource / proxy capabilities if u want to use them, and is much more 
configurable, but limited to one connection. I got a free install disk (usual 
stuff - eval or free for home use etc...) from the website www.e-smith.org in 
the post in about 2 weeks.

Dylan


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