On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Cleve Allison wrote: > Has anyone had the opportunity to use Smoothwall? And if so, how was > your experience and what is your opinion. > cha
I installed Smoothwall and used it for about a day. Nothing long term or stressful. However, I thought it was a pretty solid product. I'm sure there is a newer version since I used it. It had a lot of features built in that I didn't feel like compiling and installing on my own iptables firewall. It comes with a web proxy server, the old version used ipchains, the new uses iptables. I liked the web browser interface as well. Also, in looking at the release notes, i see they've added VPN support. Overall I think it's a good package that can be setup as a firewall/router fairly quickly. If I needed to do something fast I would probably use it. BB
