[Gloucs] I-WORM/Opas.A

[Guy Edwards]

Last post I spotted an error, the Smoothwall community site:
http://www.smoothwall.org/home/
has the GPL version right across the front
http://www.smoothwall.org
doesn't of course. My mistake.


On Tue, 2002-12-31 at 21:47, bjh wrote:
> Any idea if Smoothwall will work using the BT ISDN connection???

read their faq and it might tell you... :-)
http://www.smoothwall.org/download/pdf/docs/0.9.9/doc.faq.pdf
http://www.smoothwall.co.uk/support/faq/

oh ok, yes it does support ISDN as will IPcops.

> We have other old computers that sound as if they could be used for the
> purpose... Could one  be used with the Sitecom Wireless Networking
> Adapters - to communicate with our two main PC's???

p23 of their faq and troubleshooting guide tells you how to get a list
of all the NICs it currently supports.

They do seem to be working on more wireless stuff:-
http://www.smoothwall.org/home/articles/dang/20020103.wireless.html


> *** From previous off network dialog with John Mckeown I think we would
> probably go for SuSE 8.1 combined with Win4Lin so that we can still operate
> a number of windows based programmes we use for business purposes and are
> proven performers - We had actually been thinking of Mandrake 9.0 (had got
> as far as getting the Distro CD's for the system - but John had a number of
> problems with Mandrake from what he said.

Distro war! Resisting the urge to jump up and down like an animal
ranting about how Mandrake is the "one distribution", I'd say try them
both out for a few days and see which you get on best with.

> Incidently I notice in Linux Magazine that
> SeSE has a Firewall package as part of the Install....

I think all the modern distributions will have something very similar. 

During the install it asks you what services you want the Internet to be
able to connect to, and you can set your own custom firewall rules at
the same time. I think Redhat 8.0 does something similar during install
but I can't remember.

After install, under Mandrake it's (GUI)
Mandrake control center -> security -> firewall

> *** The hits have been coming from all over the world and are separate from
> any of the ISP hits...

You must be very popular then. Feel privileged so many young hackers are
interested in your machine :-) (sorry, not much useful I can say here)

Guy