Smoothwall - how effective is it?

Hi
I have been looking at various firewall options, Smoothwall 2.0 express
has had a lot of high praises and accolates. As a network admin I am also
interested in knowing if anyone has had any problems or nasty issues with it
and more importantly is it less prone to being rooted due to its faily
custom nature?

Many thanks

Paul M

"Paul Morriss" <paul.morriss@{|}tokenbay.co.uk> wrote in message
news:41818bf7$0$109$65c69314@mercury.nildram.net.. .
> Hi
> I have been looking at various firewall options, Smoothwall 2.0 express
> has had a lot of high praises and accolates. As a network admin I am also
> interested in knowing if anyone has had any problems or nasty issues with
it
> and more importantly is it less prone to being rooted due to its faily
> custom nature?
>
> Many thanks
>
> Paul M
>
>

Smoothwall is very secure and robust, you should check out their forum. The
good thing about smoothwall is that it runs on a dedicated computer, updates
are patched frequently.

Badboy

Paul Morriss wrote:

> Hi
> I have been looking at various firewall options, Smoothwall 2.0 express
> has had a lot of high praises and accolates. As a network admin I am also
> interested in knowing if anyone has had any problems or nasty issues with
> it and more importantly is it less prone to being rooted due to its faily
> custom nature?
>
> Many thanks
>
> Paul M

I personally would reccommend Astaro as a firewall, as long as you're in the
business of using a separate computer as a hardware firewall.

"cacophony" <cacophony@syncreate.org> wrote in message
news:50Xld.4215$G36.3792@newsread3.news.pas.earthl ink.net...
> Paul Morriss wrote:
>
> > Hi
> > I have been looking at various firewall options, Smoothwall 2.0
express
> > has had a lot of high praises and accolates. As a network admin I am
also
> > interested in knowing if anyone has had any problems or nasty issues
with
> > it and more importantly is it less prone to being rooted due to its
faily
> > custom nature?
> >
> > Many thanks
> >
> > Paul M
>
> I personally would reccommend Astaro as a firewall, as long as you're in
the
> business of using a separate computer as a hardware firewall.

If you're looking for a free firewall, then I would recommend Smoothwall,
Smoothwall works on very low powered machines and very effective. Astro is
free, but you have to pay for the advance features, checkout their website
or linux format magazine.

Badboy