Linuxformat magazine is offering on its CD this month a firewall package called 'Smoothwall.' Looking at the blurb, and reading the documentation, the software seems to good to be true from my persepctive (NQT learning to be sysadmin in between marking, previous experience as a casual desktop user). Does anyone have any experience of using smoothwall and can share pros and cons? Many thanks Darren Garside
I'm a big fan of Smoothwall! It's very easy to install and just works! No expert techie knowledge required. Although i've had problems with the latest version, as it doesn't autodetect my network card as it did before. I've got it running on a 486 66mHz, 170mb (ide)HD, 16 meg on a dial-up modem. All i needed to do to install, was make a boot floppy and temporarily lash up a CDrom and off i went. I've been following the mailing list and it seems as if it going to be a world beater. i should add that i looked at the firewall logs earlier and found that someone had been scanning my ports this morning!! Kev
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