On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Marco Zimmermann wrote: > Does anyboby know something about the firewall called smoothwall > (www.smoothwall.org)! Some friends of mine are using this pre > configured firewall for their home network.
You probably should look at the Smoothwall fork, IPcop. See www.ipcop.org. Its a somewhat long story, but if you want something GPL, youre best off looking at IPcop. At the moment its pretty similar to Smoothwall GPL, but it has some enhancements and security fixes that are not present in the Smoothwall GPL version AFAIK. > I want to use smoothie for a small network in a little company, > whit about 20 workstations behind the firewall. and the internet > connection is only for services like http, smpt, pop3, ftp etc. > (requests). There are no servers (web-, mail-, terminalserver > etc.) behind the firewall! The Smoothwall folks would steer you in the direction of one of their commercial releases. Again, if you want free, look at IPcop. > So my question is: how safe the smoothwall for this use? Is there > any security hole which I have to know? Both IPcop and Smoothwall are stripped down Linux 2.2 kernel based systems. As such they use ipchains which is not not stateful. There are some recent Squid problems that IPcop released a fix for, Smoothwall has not. I wouldnt call either of them super sophisticated, but they are rather nicely packaged, easy to install distributions that should work well for the application youve described. Joe Matuscak Rohrer Corporation 717 Seville Road Wadsworth, Ohio 44281 (330)335-1541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Firewalls mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnac.net/mailman/listinfo/firewalls
