Sorry to disagree with you Paul, but I think ipcop is a better option. The smoothwall developers are such jerks (well Richard Morrell anyway).
Gerrard, I think you are in Blenheim? I will be yup there during the school holidays if you need "hands on" help. But to answer the client access question, I'm not sure this ispossible "out of the box" with either your slackware solution, smoothwall or ipcop. It will be possible to kludge something together though. I would move the dhcp onto the gateway box, and use static ip addresses dished out by the gateway. Then at least you have the dhcp on the same box that will restrict net access. let me know if you want any help with taking this further. Nick > in a word smoothwall .. its a very easy piece of software to set up and > maintain. it will do firewall and importantly proxy caching of web > traffic. > > the iso file is fairly small I have a copy and the patches at the cafe if > you're keen. > > I think it would take about hmm .. thinks 20mins to setup :) > > cheers > > Paul swafford > > (Manager, E-caf@The Arts Centre) > (Level 2/28 Worcester Boulevard, Christchurch, NZ) > (ph/fax +64 3 3656480 www.e-caf.com) > > -- Nick Rout Barrister & Solicitor Christchurch, NZ Ph +64 3 3798966 Fax + 64 3 3798853 http://www.rout.co.nz
