Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2859 mails)

[Hans van der Merwe <hvdmerwe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 15:19 +0100, peter nikolic wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 May 2007, Damon Register wrote:
> > Hans van der Merwe wrote:
> > > Thx, ye I know about these, but really go take a look at the new Win2003
> > > firewall config builder  - I think the OSS community should take note
> > > and impl something similar (cant be hard to do, fwbuilder can be made to
> > > look like it I think)
> >
> > I am not familiar with the Win2003 firewall config builder but I am
> > familiar with the pain of trying to learn/use fwbuilder.  I was trying to
> > use it for Solaris 10.  I tinkered for a while before I discovered that it
> > wasn't really compatible (at that time) with Solaris 10.  I saw this thread
> > and got a little excited because I too wish there was an easy to use
> > firewall config tool.  At this point I am back to using SuSEfirewall2
> > because it is the only thing I have learned adequately.
> >
> > Damon Register
> 
> Hi .
> 
> 
> If you want a Firewall that is easy to install and manage and have a spare 
> machine to run it on then Smoothwall is real easy to install and config  it 
> does not need much in the way of system have it running on an old   P100 with 
> 256 Mb ram  you only need a monitor and keyboard connected for the install 
> and initial setup then you can loose them  ( Used to use BBiagent but they 
> have not answered the last dozen or so attempts at contacting them )
> 
> Pete .
> 

Smoothwall is great - but something like it as "normal" app on server
will be great  (this is basically what Win2003 got)




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