Quoting myself from 2 or 3 days ago. -------------------------------------------------------- I happened to be just playing with one of my box hoping to make it into a firewall box in the last few days. It's a 133 with 96MB of RAM. I tried both Mandrake SNF and Smoothwall on it. I haven't played with it long enough to be an expert, thus what I know may not be all correct. With 3 NIC installed, you can setup Smoothwall with a dedicated DMZ. Both firewall can be managed with web interface, however, with this old machine I got, Smoothwall seems to generate the pages a bit faster than SNF.
One of the problem I had with Smoothwall was with picking the LAN NIC. About 5 min into installation, a NIC for internal LAN (the green interface) has to be picked and it cannot be changed without reinstall (at least I haven't figured out how). If the card you want is not auto detected, you will have to pick from a list, not a problem if you have 3 identical NIC. I had 2 different kind of NIC and it kept picking the one I didn't want. Also, I don't know if this is the NIC module problem or something else, when I put 2 3Com 509b in the machine, I can only get one to work with both firewall. -------------------------------------------------------- HTH Robin > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Fred Fraley > Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 7:04 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [newbie] Single Network Firewall > > > Anyone here using it? I'm thinking about it for a 4 > desktop home network > with a cable connection. I have a 166mmx w/32 megs and a 3 > gig HD laying > around I can use. (laying around! and it was only last > spring I was still > getting by with a 486/25, 8 meg, 540 HD. Sheesh!!) > Wide open to other suggestions. > > _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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