Anyone (still) using Smoothwall..

riddlermarc · 21 Jun 2006 at 12:00

I was running a smoothie box a few years ago, but the box died a distinctly horrible death (I have pictures if anyone is brave enough) and since am using my cable router w/NAT. Unfortunately it doesn't have enough port forwarding options for my needs so I'm looking at building another smoothie box 'cause I want IDS/MRTG etc again.

.. just wondering if anyone still uses it?

riddlermarc · 23 Jun 2006 at 09:02

Phate said:
whats smoothwall?

and yes i want piccies of the OP's destroyed pc

SmoothWall Express is an open source firewall distribution based on the GNU/Linux operating system. Linux is the ideal choice for security systems; it is well proven, secure, highly configurable and freely††† available as open source code. SmoothWall includes a hardened subset of the GNU/Linux operating system, so there is no separate OS to install. Designed for ease of use, SmoothWall is configured via a web-based GUI, and requires absolutely no knowledge of Linux to install or use.

www.smoothwall.net

I will post photos of the offending beast when I can get to it in the back of the garage :eek:

Now have my smoothie up and running, lowest spec spare box I had was a Celly 667 w/384mb ram.. overkill, nah

riddlermarc · 23 Jun 2006 at 12:24

JonRohan said:
I didn;t think it did file sharing, im going to take a look at it though. Not used smoothwall express for a while.

By default it doesn't, the whole idea of having a standalone firewall is that it does just that job. I remember being flamed big time for asking on the smoothwall newsgroups a few years ago about running SETI on my smoothie, they were aghast that anything other than the smoothwall package was even considered to be run on the same box :eek:

Then again, as it is a Linux distro you can mod it to your heart's content and never look back

riddlermarc · 23 Jun 2006 at 13:53

smoove said:
So what would better suit my needs?

Might be a little overkill but for ease of setup/use you could try ClarkConnect:

What Is ClarkConnect?

ClarkConnect is a powerful yet easy-to-use software solution that transforms off-the-shelf PC hardware into a dedicated Internet gateway and server. The software is a secure, reliable and cost effective solution.

Features
Our software offers a feature-rich server solution:

Internet Gateway
Firewall
VPN
E-mail
Bandwidth and P2P Manager
Intrusion Prevention
Web and FTP Servers
Antispam/Antivirus
Content Filtering
File and Print Services
Data backup

http://www.clarkconnect.com/