[Wolves] Smoothwall with wireless router

[Old Dan]

Matthew Revell wrote:
> Old Dan wrote:
> 
>> Well, no.  Not actually /need/....
>>
>> But then, when the average cost of smoothwall is bugger all squared 
>> (using an older-but-reliable-box which is not much use for anything 
>> else any more) and the person concerned is into Linux anyway then why 
>> not?
>>
> I am that person :) If I can avoid SmoothWall, tho', I would like to; 
> even if it's just at first. The reason for that is that I can think of 
> better uses for a low end machine (eg central file storage) and I'd 
> prefer not to have a machine burning electricity if I can avoid it.
> 
> If I have decent firewalling on each machine on the network, won't that 
> be enough?
Yeah but that'll be restrictive especially if you're using a mixture of 
Win machines and Linux machines and you want to do filesharing.

Win machines are notoriously hackable with filesharing enabled.  Frankly 
I wouldn't want to be without a decent firewall in that case.

-- 
Dan