Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (225 mails)

[Phil Driscoll <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 06 May 2003 1:01 pm, MJ Ray wrote:
> Phil Driscoll <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Monday 05 May 2003 10:25 pm, MJ Ray wrote:
> >> Ugh.  Smoothwall has had a bad taste since its project lead went beserk
> >> at me.
> >
> >=2E..nevertheless, Smoothwall is a very good product, and certainly gets =
>
> A product that has used the \d*.\d*.\d*.\d* regexp or something similar
> to check for a valid IP address (hint: it doesn't) and has installed
> hard-to-remove nag screens in the past isn't a good one, is it? 
IT weems so to me :)

> For most people, I agree that a router is easier, but which routers make
> it easy to NAT and run services from inside?

I wasn't suggesting just connecting machines directly to the router. Rather 
connecting a Smoothwall machine (or similar) to the router, and hiding 
everything behind that. I wouldn't trust any firewall facilities build into 
an ADSL router for a second.

Cheers
-- 
Phil Driscoll