Another firewall that are more "professional" is Astaro, www.astaro.org which i�m using at home atm, if you are going to use it commersialy you got pay for it(fairly small compared to what you get) really nice firewall.
/Fredde ----- Original Message ----- From: "ezat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Joe Matuscak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Marco Zimmermann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Firewall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 10:45 PM Subject: Re: smoothwall > Just wondering Joe, > > > What enhancements and security fixes have you seen in IPCOP that you havent > seen in smoothwall? > > > > > regards, > > > > Ezat > > > > At 08:57 AM 27/02/2002 -0500, Joe Matuscak wrote: > >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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Firewalls mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.gnac.net/mailman/listinfo/firewalls _______________________________________________ Firewalls mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnac.net/mailman/listinfo/firewalls
