Viper Solo wrote: > I've lurked this list's archives for a bit on the subj, but it seems > the last thorough discussion took place circa Aug 2001. Some more > tidbits showed up in Dec 2001 and that was pretty much it. > > Since then, a couple of "SmoothWall GPL 2.0" betas showed up > (including "beta2" this September, which is considered pretty much a > RC, at least AFAIK), sporting 2.4 kernel, and thus iptables. So, I > figured it might be a good time to bring this subject up once again. > > Could anyone who has any experience in running out-of-the-box > firewall distros (and SmoothWall in particular) with Israeli ADSL > lines and modems available locally (especially models offered > nowadays, e.g. Alcatel's SpeedTouch Home/Pro/USB, Dynalink/Rotal ALE- > 070, etc) share it with the rest? Problems encountered? Drivers, > config, incompatibilities (<cough> pptp <cough>)? > > I believe this would be fairly beneficial for the community...
I run 4-legs router, based on Devil-Linux and a lot of iptables rules, successfully. One NIC of it is connected to Alcatel ADSL, a second one to frame-relay, the third to the internal DMZ, and the forth to the hub of the clients (WIN machines etc.). I don't use BGP yet (though still dreaming...), but the communication to the Internet is balanced between both of the external lines. I started with Devil-Linux when other 2.4 based distros were too pre- mature; Today, I would recommend to check alternatives. The leading players seem to be LEAF and WOLVERINE (you can find both of them at freshmeat.net). I would be happy to hear experience of Israeli users of LEAF and/or WOLVERINE. -- Eli Marmor [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO, Founder Netmask (El-Mar) Internet Technologies Ltd. __________________________________________________________ Tel.: +972-9-766-1020 8 Yad-Harutzim St. Fax.: +972-9-766-1314 P.O.B. 7004 Mobile: +972-50-23-7338 Kfar-Saba 44641, Israel ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
