RE: Smoothwall

[Pedro de Oliveira <p.oliveira@xxxxxxx>]

Yep - it seems smoothwall is riveted with holes so it seems I am going to
g=
o
with IPcop.  Cheers for the advice.

ZAP is kak (IMO) because to use it as a front end for a small network of
PC=
s
that are all running MSN messenger, FTP, HTTP, netmeeting, some telnet, and
other things- you need to open a lot of ports which seems to defeat the
object.  Now with IPcop you can define a green (network) zone, red
(interne=
t
zone) and orange (with pinholes to get to the green zone).  Seems a lot
safer to me. Apart from anything if ZAP loaded at bootup (which would be
th=
e
point with adsl) it wouldn't let me connect at all to the internet.  It
onl=
y
worked if I manually loaded it after bootup.  I know this seems like a
smal=
l
opportunity to be hacked but if there was a power cut in the morning and
th=
e
server rebooted after wards then this would mean my network would be
vulnerable until I noticed that ZAP wasn't running and ran it manually.

All in all I wasn't impressed with ZAP in the slightest.  I initially went
for it as I had tried it at the time of the nimda attacks and was very
impressed with it - the new version seems to be a step in the wrong
direction though.

Anyway - I'm a happy bunny now or at least I will be when I set it up
tonight.

Thanks again
Pedro

-----Original Message-----
From: Lee [mailto:lee@xxxxxxx]=20
Sent: 11 March 2002 09:46
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Smoothwall

> Right that's it - I'm going to smoothwall - Zonealarm is kak!!!
> I've heard so many people talking about it that it has to be a good
> thing. After going to the smoothwall site it seems that it's a linux
> distro . is this right?  So I have decided to put my dusty AMD 100
back
> into operation. What I would like to know is how much disk space
> smoothwall needs.  Since I don't have any spare disks for the
> smoothwall machine I would need to get one - now I can get cheap
(=A32)
> 200Mb hard drives but how much space would smoothwall need and could I
> get away with 200Mb??  Does smoothwall do internet connection sharing?
> Does it do port forwarding??

I've been following developements on Smoothwall for a while now on the one
of the Linux newsgroups. It seems that the developer is a bit of an idiot
and has upset a lot of ppl who where trying to fix (what seems like) a lot
of holes in Smoothwall. From what's been said Smoothwall looks a bit
dangerous to use as frontline defense, unless you really know what you're
doing and can fix/set it up properly.

Just my 2p.
Lee.

PS. What makes you says ZA is kak?





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