Re: Day wasted: Help needed please

[Alan Shields <alan@xxxxxxx>]

You need to burn this to a cd, pop it in your spare pc and boot off it. If
you look on smoothwalls site there are a couple of manuals to download.

Alan Shields
alan@xxxxxxx
On Tuesday, February 26, 2002, at 11:43  pm, Brian G. Reynolds wrote:

> Hi, how does this compare to a hardware firewall?
>
> Thought I might give it a whirl as I have a few old PC's with nothing
> to
> do...
>
> I have downloaded the file "smoothwall-0.9.9-se.iso" which I think is
> right
> but what do I do with it now?
>
> As I cannot get my ICS to work no matter what I try I thought maybe time
> to
> uninstall all firewall software and try something else?
>
> TIA,
>
> B.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Paul Helliwell [mailto:g0kao@xxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 25 February 2002 20:04
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Day wasted: Help needed please
> >
> >
> > First off I am new to this group and gradually wading through about 3
> days
> > worth of updates but getting there....
> >
> > here is a suggestion that I am using  now to reply to this note....
> >
> > Find a cheap and chearful pentium 75 or better with as much memory in
> as
> > possible, Mine has 40meg, and download the latest copy of Smoothwall
> >from
> > www.smoothwall .org
> > and install. Ok its a bit more involved but it gives good firewall
> and
> > intrusion protection, it sis stable mine has been on now for a number
> of
> > weeks (it is Linux based after all!!).
> > You will need either a cd drive in the firewall pc or an http server
> on
> > another pc accessible over the network again Linux helped me out
> > here. once
> > it is installed you manage it over the network so no need for screen
> and
> > keyboard after youve got it up an running. And by the way the logs
> make
> > interesting reading after youve been on the net with it.
> >
> > I am Looking at doing some home auto but will trawl through this
> > lot before
> > putting questions to the group. need any more help with above let me
> know.
> >
> > Regards Paul
 
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