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SmoothWall 2.0 Linux-Based Firewall Released
thegraham writes "Despite some earlier server problems, SmoothWall 2.0 has been released this evening - there are also release notes available. SmoothWall is 'a firewall operating system distribution based on Linux, enabling a low-end, possibly otherwise redundant, Intel and compatible PC to become a hardened Internet firewall', and changes from version 1 include: 2.4 kernel, new web interface, improved networking and many bugs corrected through the Beta program."
Using an old Pentium with two NICs for this is great, but the $699 licensing fee is a bit steep. Better stick to OpenBSD..
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I couldn't agree more. With XP's firewall, I'm able to completely lose all access to the internet. I never have to worry about getting infected with virii, because they have no chance of being downloaded on my bulletproof machine.
I wonder when the rest of the OSs of the world will realize that XPs new focus on security first is the way to go.
Is there a -2, Obviously Retarded?
Hey freaks: now you're ju
This thing is great. It is preventing my unauthorized slashotting attempt.
Hardware Firewall- Unplugging the cat5 from the computer.
I looked at Smoothwall a while ago. I picked OpenBSD. Who needs to get harangued by Morell? Theo de Raadt is simply a saint by comparison.
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See, here's the thing; there's enough choices out there that nowadays I tend to have a "one strike and you're out" policy for a lot of software.
Don't like distro XX? Use a different one.
Don't like firewall softare YY? There's more available
Don't like mail server ZZ? No-one else likes Qmail, either.
I used to be a huge RedHat proponent, then they released 7.0, and I quit using RedHat.
The behaviour of Smoothwall once was so spectacularly bad [and I mean SPECTACULARLY], that I simply can't trust Smoothwall ever again, no-how, no-way. To the point where I'll actively encourage other people to avoid it also. Redhat is on my list of distro's I recommend newbies try, although I don't like it for my own personal use. Smoothwall is on my shitlist for the rest of time.
And since there's other, just-as-good-if-not-better choices out there, I see no reason to use Smoothwall.
In all seriousness, what benefits do I, a normal user, gain from using non-commercial smoothwall [with hopelessly untrustworthy developers] over using somethign else like IPCop?
Gary (-;
Huh? You're all wrong. The best way to do this is to use crystals tuned to the right freqency. If they're grown listening to Mozart, all the better, but it'll cost you a bit extra.
"Anyone else got opinions on Smoothwall vs. IPCop?"
They should write that on the bottom of fireworks, in place of the traditional "light blue touchpaper and retire"...