Hi, I've been using Smoothwall for about a month.
I tested it using (amongst others): http://www.grc.com/ Go to 'shields up'. The site (though I've heard it has it's detractors) gives you an idea of which ports are stealthed/closed/open. One of my Win machines runs McAfee also (paranoid, me?) and it records only general activity on my home network - there are none of the repeated scans etc that generally occur on the 'net. >From what I can gather, if you use the general setup, only port 113 is shown (as closed) - apparently some IRCs don't work if this is stealthed. I don't know if this is true as I don't use IRC software. You can also redirect port traffic from this port to a nonsense address (happy to exchange mail about this - it's new to me and I'm only just getting a chance to look at it). >From my experience, overall, it would seem that Smoothwall works well... anybody else using it? Patrick -----Original Message----- From: Lyle Chapman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 16 September 2004 10:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SLUG] smoothwall for home firewall If anyone has some input I would be grateful, I have setup smoothwall at home and was wondering how it rates in security thanks for any input or advice Lyle Chapman Pre-Press Supervisor Torch Publishing Co. 47 Allingham Street, Condell Park 2200, NSW, Australia 612 9795 0000 http://www.torchpublishing.com.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
