Bokkenka
01-17-2002, 07:53 PM
Whoever suggested Smoothwall, thank you thank you, thank you!
It is sweet! I frankensteined together an old PoS computer (P133, 200MB hdd, 32MB ram, 56K modem, and 10/100 NIC) serving a home network of four computers. It didn't take me half-an-hour to install and set-up. I haven't figured out the dial-on-demand yet, but the connect/disconnect buttons work good enough until I do.
The cgi interface is great! The info and control it provides is amazing! I ran GRC.com's Shields Up! and all ports but two came back as stealth. And, the two were closed.
I whole heartedly suggest that anybody with an old box sitting around throw a Smoothwall cd into it.
I'm just looking over the info page, and I've transmitted over 10,000 packets across the NIC then the modem, and there's only been one error. It even has cool little traffic graphs. It hasn't even touched the 16MB of swap.
No, I am not affiliated with the Smoothwall project in any way. No, I am not be compensated in any way to write this. I just think Smoothwall is great. I'm becoming an evangelist for more and more causes... First Linux, then openssh, now Smoothwall.
It is sweet! I frankensteined together an old PoS computer (P133, 200MB hdd, 32MB ram, 56K modem, and 10/100 NIC) serving a home network of four computers. It didn't take me half-an-hour to install and set-up. I haven't figured out the dial-on-demand yet, but the connect/disconnect buttons work good enough until I do.
The cgi interface is great! The info and control it provides is amazing! I ran GRC.com's Shields Up! and all ports but two came back as stealth. And, the two were closed.
I whole heartedly suggest that anybody with an old box sitting around throw a Smoothwall cd into it.
I'm just looking over the info page, and I've transmitted over 10,000 packets across the NIC then the modem, and there's only been one error. It even has cool little traffic graphs. It hasn't even touched the 16MB of swap.
No, I am not affiliated with the Smoothwall project in any way. No, I am not be compensated in any way to write this. I just think Smoothwall is great. I'm becoming an evangelist for more and more causes... First Linux, then openssh, now Smoothwall.