Smooth Wall firewall/router

crumsteel · Post by **crumsteel** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 8:46 pm

I have an extra computer and was thinking about trying smooth wall. Does anyone have any experience with it? Currently I am using a siemens router and thought I might get more options/features with smooth wall.

http://www.smoothwall.org/

bluefugue · Post by **bluefugue** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 9:34 pm

Considering my misadventures with D-Link I would be interested to hear about other brands as well...

LawBeefaroni · Post by **LawBeefaroni** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 10:52 pm

I'm missing the hardware/router connection. Looks like a software firewall to me.

crumsteel · Post by **crumsteel** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 10:56 pm

LawBeefaroni wrote:I'm missing the hardware/router connection. Looks like a software firewall to me.

hopefully I understand correct.

You use a pc with 2 nic's that is dedicated to being your router/firewall. It is software, but so is you linksys router without the hardware provided.

LawBeefaroni · Post by **LawBeefaroni** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 11:06 pm

Ahh, I see.

So you turn one PC into a router, basically. Cool.