untangle firewall
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axgrinder73
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Never heard of that one. Have you checked onto Smoothwall? (www.smoothwall.org)
It is a Linux based firewall that runs on an old stand alone pc. I run it and it works great. And of course, It's free.
It is a Linux based firewall that runs on an old stand alone pc. I run it and it works great. And of course, It's free.
axgrinder73
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I am curious as to what kind of problem you were having with Smoothwall? Maybe something I need to be looking out for?
brian
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it was a very odd problem. i think it was just my setup for it but the wireless would work, but the lan would not get a internet connection...
however i just tried it out and so far, wow, it is great! the interfase is so easy to follow and looks great. now i just have to try it out
axgrinder73
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Were you trying to use a wireless router connected to the Smoothwall? If so, that was the problem; you were trying to double route.
brian
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Ok well after well like 2 months i have to give all you the overview.
Overall i find that this firewall is AMAZING!!! i highly recommend it. i dont think i have ever been given something that runs so easily for something that the average joe does not know about. i mean i can give this to sally of the finance department that know very little about computers and she could give me a basic setup! for anyone that wants control over there whole Internet, get this! i mean it gives you a pdf file telling you how many viruses, who's computer is using the most bandwidth, how much usage you used, spam... I cant believe it is free it is that good! i have been running it at my house, and just got my "boss" interested and we are about to make it our firewall for the guest network. I also got my school interested in it for the student network since he was fed up with the complexity of our old firewall. Some things i learned is that they use clam av for the virus so it gets updated every hour and has id's on the backdoors and spyware so you can see it at snort.org.
So since i have had bad experiences i have to give this a 11 out of 10..
Overall i find that this firewall is AMAZING!!! i highly recommend it. i dont think i have ever been given something that runs so easily for something that the average joe does not know about. i mean i can give this to sally of the finance department that know very little about computers and she could give me a basic setup! for anyone that wants control over there whole Internet, get this! i mean it gives you a pdf file telling you how many viruses, who's computer is using the most bandwidth, how much usage you used, spam... I cant believe it is free it is that good! i have been running it at my house, and just got my "boss" interested and we are about to make it our firewall for the guest network. I also got my school interested in it for the student network since he was fed up with the complexity of our old firewall. Some things i learned is that they use clam av for the virus so it gets updated every hour and has id's on the backdoors and spyware so you can see it at snort.org.
So since i have had bad experiences i have to give this a 11 out of 10..