[GRLUG] Firewall Distro

Ben Rousch brousch at gmail.com
Tue Mar 15 11:15:50 EDT 2011


On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 11:07 AM, John Wesorick <john at wesorick.com> wrote:
> Why not upgrade to the newest version of Smoothwall? It is still actively
> developed. I used Smoothwall for several years. I also like pfSense.

I may do this, but I wanted to see what else is out there.

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> On Mar 15, 2011 11:00 AM, "Ben Rousch" <brousch at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm running an ancient version of Smoothwall and it's really starting
>> to show its age. What firewall distro or packages are folks using
>> these days? All I use it for is inbound firewall, squid cache and
>> transparent proxy, url filter, and dhcp. It sits in front of about 20
>> users, so I think the router-based distros would be too small. I need
>> some kind of GUI (web or curses), preferably one that doesn't make me
>> think too much. If your suggestion is to configure it all on the
>> command line, you will not win a cookie.
>>
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