[TriLUG] Smoothwall

[Jeff Tickle]

I also have to recommend this one...  I'd been running SW on a Pentium
II 300 w/ 128MB RAM, WAY overkill for Smoothie.  Friend of mine was
throwing out a Pentium 90 system with 32MB, and looked at me very funny
when I begged her to give it to me instead of throw it out ;-)  It's a
great way to recycle old systems, although I wouldn't recommend going
below a 75MHz.  The most expensive part of your router will probably be
the two network cards.

-Jeff

On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 19:55, Jason Tower wrote:
> On Friday 19 September 2003 20:44, rasch at raschnet.com wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 03:57:16PM -0600, Ryan Wheaton 
> <ryan.wheaton at comcast.net> wrote:
> > > has anyone heard of or used this before?
> > >
> > > www.smoothwall.org.
> > >
> > > if so, what do you think of it?
> >
> > I'd never heard of it.  The website is pretty high on # of links and
> > pretty low on info.  I guess it's a project like the former linux
> > router project (LRP), which provides a fully function router/firewall
> > as a bootable image.
> >
> > David
> 
> despite the somewhat cheesy website, smoothwall is an excellent and easy 
> to install/use firewall/router distro.  i installed it on a pentium 100 
> with 32mb ram to handle the biz class RR connection at my wife's office 
> over a year ago, and aside from filling up the logs on a 1gb drive it's 
> run without a hitch.  it will even accomodate three nics if you want to 
> set it up with a DMZ, and it can act as a IPSEC VPN tunnel endpoint as 
> well.  highly recommended.
> 
> jason
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