Firewall Adventure part1

ArmoArmo Mr. Nice Guy Is Dead,Only Aqua Remains Member
edited October 2006 in Science & Tech
well the parts for my smoothwall box should be in the mail on the way here. after my second totally run in with amsterdams finest intruders.

this will be my first production firewall for use other than for experimentation adn for a few class assignments way back in skool.

since my network topology is radicly diffrent from what ive done before it outta be a good refresh course.

so, does anyone have any advice for configuring smoothwall? ive been reading the guides and how to's over the weekend ut untill its here and tangable i can only do it in my head.

any one have any suggestions on what i need to be on the look out for? or advice?

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  • zero-counterzero-counter Linux Lubber San Antonio Member
    edited October 2006
    Haven't used it but have used Monowall, especially for its bandwidth shaping which I used to rely on Squid for in the past.. Smoothwall looks (tastes) great, less filling!
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited October 2006
    I might be giving both a go soon, my cousin may be giving me an old laptop from his church which should be good enough to use as a firewall/router(with a switch of course).

    I'll just need a PCMCIA ethernet card so I can have an in and out. Will Smoothwall or monowall support a PCMCIA ethernet card?
  • GrayFoxGrayFox /dev/urandom Member
    edited October 2006
    Smoothwall is solid and very easy to configure.

    I replaced my wrt54g v2.2 with a p3 450 192mb of ram with smoothwall and havent looked back.

    RWB as long as it has kernel 2.4 support you can use a pcmcia card.
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited October 2006
    I used a smoothwall at the SMLAN this year: it was a p4 1.8ghz with 512mb of ram and two high end NICs from Intel, and it worked great. At SMLAN'05 we had connectivity issues with 30+ people getting on the internet at the same time, and my router kept crapping out, but the smoothy just chewed through it without any issues at '06.

    Honestly, smoothwall works really really well right out of the box. You'll have no trouble configuring it. The only thing to remember is that ssh is on port 222 instead of 22. That took me a while and drove me nuts when I was trying to configure it :crazy: until I remembered the non-standard ssh port.
  • ArmoArmo Mr. Nice Guy Is Dead,Only Aqua Remains Member
    edited October 2006
    i have a few ideas of how i think it should work. i still want my router to be the DHCP server. so i take it i set a static on the green port, and dhcp on the red,

    will i need port forwarding in the smoothie to get torrents to work? i have them forwarded on my router to get it to work properly.
  • BudBud Chesterfield, Va
    edited October 2006
    LOL....armo after all that teasing you came to the understand the joys of smoothwall. Its really easy to use I know you will get it running.
  • ArmoArmo Mr. Nice Guy Is Dead,Only Aqua Remains Member
    edited October 2006
    before or after i dominate my network with it?
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