[plug] Smoothwall was: Modem faster under Linux?

[Mark Nold]

I'm no genius in the area but the concept behind the firewall is to keep it as 
simple as possible, less software less vulnrabilities.

You will find that smoothwall is a bit hard to add software to as it doesnt 
come with gcc, make, bison etc. Also since the upgrade path seems to consist of 
blowing away your install putting effort into making heaps of software will 
probably frustrate you.

I um'd and ah'd whether i go with Smoothwall or spend the time securing another 
distro as a firewall and including a few of the goodies i wanted... at the end 
of the day Smoothwall won out because my girlfriend wanted internet access 
"now" :) And im glad i did as it's a great package, just very narrow in focus.






Mark Nold
markn at enspace.com
Senior Consultant

Change is inevitable, except from vending machines.




On Saturday, 16 June 2001 12:01, madco [SMTP:madco at iinet.net.au] wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> not that i have heard so many things about smoothwall on this list in the
> last couple of weeks I will give it a try to. The only question I have
> about is whether I can run sendmail/fetchmail on it and if anyone has
> already tries this. Does running sendmail defeat the purpose of the
> firewall a bit or would that be allright for a home network?
>
> Christian
>
>
> >Hi guys,
> >
> >I just installed a firewall with smoothwall and my 56K modem. When im
> >downloading files now i get around 6-7KB / Second , compared to the same
> >modem
> >giving me 3-4KB MAX before under windows. This is great by why would this be
> >so? My understanding has been that a 56K modem maximum should be 7Kilobytes 
/
> >
> >second and now i seem to be reaching that.
> >
> >BTW: Smoothwall seems very good, i've been running it for a few days now and
> >quite impressed. The install and config was extreemly simple, and the web
> >interface is fantastic for a headless box.
> >
> >
> >Pleasantly surprised,
> >
> >mn
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >Mark Nold
> >markn at enspace.com
> >Senior Consultant
> >
> >Change is inevitable, except from vending machines.
>
>