We maxed out on our small soho router at a small company I worked at. I then turned to smoothwall (www.smoothwall.org) and loaded it on a 700 Mhz pentium 3 system. Worked wonders. Lots of features and addons/extensions from the community. They also have a commercial version with a gang load of features http://www.smoothwall.net/products/corporatefirewa ll4/?featurecomparison. I'm surprised it wasn't mentioned on this topic before. I'm not sure how vyatta compares though.
I second that... Smoothwall is very good especially when you
can recycle old computers and its cheap! There are also
smoothwall hacks out there that help you extend it.
By pass the six steps and just port OS X ot x86! You will see a lot of widows users jump ship and see Microsoft really sweat it out. It would have to battle fronts to contend with an maybe just maybe put out secure products. The only thing is that porting OS X to x86 would drain G5/iMac sales. On the other hand true mac die hards would probably stick with hardware that they can depend on. I believe if Apple really wants to increase their market share that they would do this. It would be the next biggest reveloution in the tech industry next to the release of Linux, iPod and Hot Pockets;-)
We just recently moved our firewall/router from a D-Link to a Smoothwall Express Setup. I'm currently using the RC1 version and found it to be a very big perfomance boost over D-link. We were constantly loosing connection with the D-link and had to flogg the power to restart it. Before the Dlink we had a Linksys and had to do the same. The SOHO solutions are limited in their hardware capabilities, you can't upgrade with out buying a new little box. With Smoothwall, as your traffic needs increase, you can simply add more memory and upgrade the cpu!
I have not looked at other software solutions, I am sold on Smoothwall Express. Its perfect for a small to Medium Sized company.
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We maxed out on our small soho router at a small company I worked at. I then turned to smoothwall (www.smoothwall.org) and loadeda ll4/?featurecomparison. I'm surprised it wasn't mentioned on this topic before. I'm not sure how vyatta compares though.
it on a 700 Mhz pentium 3 system. Worked wonders. Lots of features and addons/extensions from the community. They also have a commercial version with a gang load of features http://www.smoothwall.net/products/corporatefirew
Second!
I second that... Smoothwall is very good especially when you can recycle old computers and its cheap! There are also smoothwall hacks out there that help you extend it.
By pass the six steps and just port OS X ot x86! You will see a lot of widows users jump ship and see Microsoft really sweat it out. It would have to battle fronts to contend with an maybe just maybe put out secure products. The only thing is that porting OS X to x86 would drain G5/iMac sales. On the other hand true mac die hards would probably stick with hardware that they can depend on. I believe if Apple really wants to increase their market share that they would do this. It would be the next biggest reveloution in the tech industry next to the release of Linux, iPod and Hot Pockets ;-)
If you save one life with this system, you could flush all those complaints down the toilet.
Train them to !@#$ up ... hehe
Including windows version? or just for apple version?
We just recently moved our firewall/router from a D-Link to a Smoothwall Express Setup. I'm currently using the RC1 version and found it to be a very big perfomance boost over D-link. We were constantly loosing connection with the D-link and had to flogg the power to restart it. Before the Dlink we had a Linksys and had to do the same. The SOHO solutions are limited in their hardware capabilities, you can't upgrade with out buying a new little box. With Smoothwall, as your traffic needs increase, you can simply add more memory and upgrade the cpu! I have not looked at other software solutions, I am sold on Smoothwall Express. Its perfect for a small to Medium Sized company.