Felipe Leon wrote Subject: RE: [SLE] Re:[SLE] Which Cable/DSL Firewall? ....... but I wonder if it is possible to install a
*really* minimal system for this box (without X obviously and so on) so it can get the firewall-routing-dhcp work done. Thanks for your important opinions,
Felipe.
Jay Jennings wrote
There is also smoothwall a linux based firewall, which I have never used but have heard good things about. www.smoothwall.org
Felipe I can vouch for the Smoothwall system. I have been using it for over 2 years on Win and now trying it out on SuSE 8.2. Currently using v1.0 update 9 although version 2.0 has just been released. I run this on old 233mhz Pentium II with 4Gb h/d and Alcatel (Thompson)ADSL. The only prob I have encountered - which I am sure is due to my ignorance of Linux rather than the Smoothwall ;-) - is I am struggling to configure the Eth0 and DHCP client on Linux to connect via the Smoothie. If anyone can help on this I would be grateful. HTH Humvee