Felipe Leon wrote:
Hello list, I'm about to take an old P1 166 MHz with a 2GB harddisk and two nics, and install smoothwall on it to connect my home network to the internet. I previously was connecting my home network to my dsl provider via a d-link broadband router with "built in" firewall. [snip]
Stick with Smoothwall, I reckon. At least your hair won't turn grey overnight. I've just spend about seven hours setting up a dlink dsl-300g+ ethernet modem attached to a four-port dlink Dl-804hv firewall/router. Quelle horreur! The instructions, at least for the modem, are a nightmare and totally fail to explain how to set it up with one of their own dlink routers (since the modem runs a dhcp server you can't switch off and claims in small print halfway through the pdf "manual" - not on the box, of course - that it can only be used with a single PC). Luckily that turned out to be baloney. Eventually got it going now by spending hours working through every possible combination until one "took". And the router seems good and secure, with a lot of switches on it for vpn, pass through ports, ip filtering, etc. Tests at the usual firewall-checking sites are all OK. But that's the last time I'm risking my neck with this outfit. Next time it's Smoothwall, I think. Somehow sticking to Linux feel safe. I know what to do. Oh yes, and both manuals make airy references to firmware upgrades bringing the functionality the stuff should have had in the first place. They've never appeared, of course. And they never will I expect. Rogues! :) Fish