We used to use Smoothwall for our smaller clients' firewalls. We would buy a VERY low-end PC, put another NIC in it, then install Smoothwall and it worked very well.
Jay Dale I.T. Manager, 3GiG Mobile: 713.299.2541 Email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including any attached files, may contain confidential and/or privileged information for the sole use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination or copying of this e-mail and attachments, if any, or the information contained herein, is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive information for the intended recipient), please contact the sender by reply e-mail and delete all copies of this message. From: Matt Plahtinsky [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 1:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Firewall Question (Different than Johnathan's question but similar. Might help us both out. ) I was reading though Jonathan's "Firewall Recommendation" thread and it got me thinking. I have a non profit client that their Firewall is on its way to Firewall heaven (actually firewall hell but we will not go there). I have been looking at the recommendations of the group for the different vendors. I need something cheap though and was wondering if anyone could recommend some FREE open source firewalls. I started looking at M0n0wall (http://m0n0.ch/wall/) today and it looks really cool. Load it on a USB Thumb drive and hook it up to an old p4 and you have a beast of a firewall for a SMB. PC dies and just move the USB Thumb Drive to another old P4 and keep going. Dose anyone have any experience with M0n0wall or any other open source software type for smb's? Thanks Matt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
