RE: Day wasted: Help needed please

["Brian G. Reynolds" <brian.g.reynolds@xxxxxxx>]

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