Very nice product. It also includes Squid, Snort, and support for a DMZ. I love it! Recently, they incorporated ALL fixes (1 through 6) and some additional functionality into a "Special Edition" or .99 SE. Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "shawn" <fertch at mninter.net> To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001 12:16 AM Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Floppy based firewall > http://www.smoothwall.org > > Not a floppy based install. Rather a 25MB iso that is simple to install. I > spent days upon days of frustration trying to build a firewall machine.... > Downloaded the iso, burned it to cd at work. Came home, less than 45 minutes > later I was up and running. Both nics recognized, web interface on the internal > side. DHCP/DNS capabilites. SSH and VPN too. I'm very impressed at this. > > It's a free product, Linux based under the GNU license. I'm definately sending > some money into them to help support further development. > > One happy camper. I have this thing running on my P-166/96MB ram machine. > Scary thing is, it seems that internet connections are faster going through this > and two 10Mb hubs than it is for direct connection. Either that, or I'm still > in awe over the simplicity of this install. > > > Shawn > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >