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?

CocoPops · 21 Jun 2006 at 12:13

Not used it for years.

Still know a few small firms that use it for there web connection etc.

Burbleflop · 21 Jun 2006 at 13:29

I ditched Smoothwall for IPCop about 4 years ago. Since then I've ditched IPCop for a Cisco PIX, but on the whole, IPCop was a good product.

Si. · 21 Jun 2006 at 13:50

One smoothie here.

zetec452 · 21 Jun 2006 at 13:54

Ive recently used smoothwall to proxy a national recruitment firm. Works very well.

Big-Mac-Please · 21 Jun 2006 at 22:14

I used it about 4years ago and it was great!

They sent me an email about a week ago and I was thinking about making one again.

Its good really when you consider your using a pc that cost less than a t-shirt!

Moredhel · 21 Jun 2006 at 22:19

I've recently heard good things about pfSense. Built on FreeBSD and using OpenBSD's PF firewall (generally considered the most secure firewall going). I've not used pfsense myself but a fiew friends have and were positive about it.

Davey Dave · 22 Jun 2006 at 09:57

I use a WRAP box (tiny integrated box with 3 nics and the OS on a CF card) with IPCop. Works very well, is silent and cheap to run.

tom_e · 22 Jun 2006 at 10:05

looks like my school is a bit behind the times then theyve only just began to impliment smoothwall into the school network and they seem to think its the greatest thing since sliced bread

Big-Mac-Please · 22 Jun 2006 at 11:03

I'm sure its been updated and improved and still as good as it was

How well does it work with bittorrent these days?

deano · 22 Jun 2006 at 13:54

I use to use smoothwall then migraed to ipcop at version 1.1 then moved a couple of years ago to http://m0n0.ch/wall/ on an embeded soekris motherboard

still set up ipcop for people now and again.

Cheers
Deano

Phate · 22 Jun 2006 at 19:12

whats smoothwall?

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

ikapod · 22 Jun 2006 at 22:49

Still running smoothwall at home on a Pentium Pro 200Mhz./128MB

ikapod

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

happytechie · 23 Jun 2006 at 09:16

My smoothie box is still running, P166 overclocked to 233, it's been up for about 5 years now apart from when I moved house. I don't actually use it as a proxy / gateway anymore but it is just fine as a networked file server at home.

Smoothie just works, I might not wgree with it's founder's views but there is no getting away from the fact that it was (is) a great product imho.

HT

zetec452 · 23 Jun 2006 at 12:15

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

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

zetec452 · 23 Jun 2006 at 12:36

Yeah smoothwall don't like being asked whether you can put other stuff on it. I tried to ask them if I could run corporate guardian with some backup software.