The fork is called IPcop. I haven't done much more than see either, but it might help. Smoothwall GPL seemed old, the last time I checked. Not that that is a bad thing, but it made me worry that they weren't really supporting it anymore.
Kev. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jarrod Major" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 10:40 AM Subject: Re: (clug-talk) SmoothWall help > Hey Doug, Jason, Kevin and Graham, > > I am using SmoothWall GPL 0.9.9 SE and I have the patches for it as well. > Yes I believe it has been forked but this is the most recent stable GPL > version. There is a beta but I wanted to stay away from that for now. > > Kevin I believe the Fork is one they are charging for so I don't think that > will do. If you find something that is still GPL let me know. > > Yes, we had tried setting SmoothWall up with only one NIC in at a time to > see if we could isolate it. This also did not work. > > Thanks for the link Doug, I may try LRP but I wanted something robust enough > to handle some tricky stuff. The P90 and P166 only have about 32Mb RAM so > I'm not sure if they would be able to run LRP. The P233 has 64MB and appears > to be a more likely candidate. I may check this out. > > Good questions and suggestions guys. > > BTW, Graham, I too have heard that RealTek's can be flaky but I have used > them in all my computers and they seem to work fine. If you want to check > your DLink card to find out whether it is a RealTek card it should be fairly > obvious, the chip should have rtl followed by either 8129 or 8139 on it for > the 10BaseT or 10/100BaseT respectively. I know that some cards by a > particular manufacturer spontaneously change chipmakers during the course of > a NIC card's lifespan. It starts out as a RealTek then they get something > else. So when you think you using a card that has good Linux support for a > particular chipset and the manufacturer changes you are hooped. I always > check my hardware. The better support sites not only list the hardware but > even go so far as to list chipsets to offset this issue. > > Jarrod > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Graham Monk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 10:19 AM > Subject: Re: (clug-talk) SmoothWall help > > > > Jarrod Major wrote: > > > > >I decided to try my hand at making a home firewall/gateway. SmoothWall > > >seemed to be the distro of choice. I had two computers that were likely > > >candidates for the job an IBM Aptiva P166 and a Packard Bell P90. Both > still > > >very serviceable. I also have a small collection of Linux-proven NIC's > that > > >I thought would work just fine in this application. > > > > > >After several attempts on these two boxes, I ended up picking up a Dell > > >Pentium 233. This computer also seems to not want to take to installing > > >SmoothWall. I have checked the SmoothWall site for hardware compatibility > > >and the NIC's for the most part appear to be supported. Here's a list of > > >what I have and the Linux driver module typically used: > > > > > >PCI > > >RealTek 8139 10/100 - rtl8139 > > >RealTek 8129 10 BaseT - ne2k-pc / ne2k / ne > > >SMC EtherPower - tulip > > > > > >ISA > > >Intel EtherExpress 16 - eexpress > > >3Com ?? - ?? > > > > > >All three computers will get to the Green NIC probe phase and fail. The > > >probe will not autodetect the cards. I have gone into manual mode and > given > > >it the appropriate module, IO and IRQ. All to no avail. These cards have > all > > >worked under Windows not very long ago and some have even run perfectly > fine > > >under other distributions of Linux. I am very careful with my hardware so > I > > >cannot believe that they could all be bad. > > > > > >The ISO I used for burning my SmoothWall disc was checked against the MD5 > > >Checksum and it was verified. > > > > > >I cannot believe that three computers would all refuse to take this > install > > >with various NIC's in place. I enlisted Marcel's help and he could not > > >overcome my install issues either. We're both stymied. > > > > > >Anyone have any experience they'd like to share or any advice? Thanks in > > >advance. > > > > > >As an aside, we even attempted to throw OpenBSD on one of the boxes and > it > > >crapped out almost immediately. We were pretty tired at this point so we > did > > >not delve too deeply into this install. It was a floppy/FTP install. > > > > > >Jarrod Major > > >CLUG Treasurer > > >Registered Linux User: #224211 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi Jarrod > > I fear I may make myself look stupid here but anyway, > > I had problems with smoothwall myself using Dlink cards > > which are supposed to use realtek chips but do something weird > > with them. I found that startec S100 works well. > > Suggestion,.... Try installing with only one card ( first one then the > > other) > > This should at least isolate which card is causing problems, assuming > > this is not something you have allready tried. > > Graham > > > > > > > > >
