Re: [Eug-lug] Smoothwall (www.smoothwall.org) experience?

2005-05-04 Thread Walter Hurst
Is there a reason why ... IPCop forked from Smoothwall? ... you picked IPCop over Smoothwall? Thanks. Walter. On May 4, 2005, at 10:31 AM, Russ Johnson wrote: Walter Hurst wrote: I was wondering if anybody has any experience with the Smoothwall I use IPCop (www.ipcop.org). It's a product that f

Re: [Eug-lug] Smoothwall (www.smoothwall.org) experience?

2005-05-04 Thread Walter Hurst
I left the standard ports forwarded so that when I'm off somewhere and want to telnet back, I won't have to recall what port I'd mapped it to. I think I'm going to change this for ssh and other non-public used ports. My web server is for friends/family/work and will have to stay on 80. In resp

Re: [Eug-lug] Smoothwall (www.smoothwall.org) experience?

2005-05-04 Thread Russ Johnson
Walter Hurst wrote: What kind of box are you running it on? I'm using a celeron 533 with 128 megs of ram, but that's WAY overkill. There are folks on the mailing list using 486s. There are also lots of folks using small appliance like devices with flash cards in them with ipcop on the flash. Rus

Re: [Eug-lug] Smoothwall (www.smoothwall.org) experience?

2005-05-04 Thread Walter Hurst
Thanks for the info Russ. I think I'll check out IPCop. I was a little leery that Smoothwall seemed more "corporate" than it should which means they could go the route of RedHat - at which point I'd need to switch or do more research again. What kind of box are you running it on? Walter. On May

Re: [Eug-lug] Smoothwall (www.smoothwall.org) experience?

2005-05-04 Thread Russ Johnson
Walter Hurst wrote: Is there a reason why ... IPCop forked from Smoothwall? There were some fundamental differences between the maintainers of each product. I'm not privy to the specifics, so I'm not going to speculate. I know from what I've read in the IPCop mailing lists, the maintainers o

Re: [Eug-lug] Smoothwall (www.smoothwall.org) experience?

2005-05-04 Thread Walter Hurst
Is there a reason why ... IPCop forked from Smoothwall? ... you picked IPCop over Smoothwall? Thanks. Walter. On May 4, 2005, at 10:31 AM, Russ Johnson wrote: Walter Hurst wrote: I was wondering if anybody has any experience with the Smoothwall I use IPCop (www.ipcop.org). It's a product that f

Re: [Eug-lug] Smoothwall (www.smoothwall.org) experience?

2005-05-04 Thread Walter Hurst
I left the standard ports forwarded so that when I'm off somewhere and want to telnet back, I won't have to recall what port I'd mapped it to. I think I'm going to change this for ssh and other non-public used ports. My web server is for friends/family/work and will have to stay on 80. In resp

Re: [Eug-lug] Smoothwall (www.smoothwall.org) experience?

2005-05-04 Thread Russ Johnson
Walter Hurst wrote: I was wondering if anybody has any experience with the Smoothwall I use IPCop (www.ipcop.org). It's a product that forked from smoothwall, and has done really good work with it. If you are just securing a LAN that you don't run a bunch of server on, the firewall appliances wo

Re: [Eug-lug] Smoothwall (www.smoothwall.org) experience?

2005-05-04 Thread Mr O
Most routers will function the same. I only mentioned the WRT54G in case you wanted a more highly customizeable firewall. As for services on your machine, if you webserving needs are for your personal use then have your router route a different port to that box. Same with SSH. Don't just use 22 bec

Re: [Eug-lug] Smoothwall (www.smoothwall.org) experience?

2005-05-04 Thread larry price
On 5/3/05, Walter Hurst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My connection is DSL broadband. I have servers behind the existing DSL > router and have some ports forwarded. From my server logs, I can see > that I'm already getting random dictionary attacks against my ssh > server. Not that they've succeede

Re: [Eug-lug] Smoothwall (www.smoothwall.org) experience?

2005-05-03 Thread T. Joseph CARTER
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 10:57:10PM -0700, Jamie wrote: > Ive been doing this for about a year now, and I really dont miss fussing with > an old firewall pc at all. I actually have that model, and its a real nice > unit... You can find them real cheap just about every week in the sunday ads > if

Re: [Eug-lug] Smoothwall (www.smoothwall.org) experience?

2005-05-03 Thread Walter Hurst
I just bought the D-Link DWL-923 at Best Buy. How does that compare with the Linksys? I got it because it was $19 (after rebates) and came bundled with a laptop NIC (which is what I really needed...). My connection is DSL broadband. I have servers behind the existing DSL router and have some po

Re: [Eug-lug] Smoothwall (www.smoothwall.org) experience?

2005-05-03 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 10:32:31PM -0700, Mr O wrote: > Welcome to our semi-regularly active random location meetings > group. > > As for a recommendation to your question, are you providing a > firewall for a dial-up or high speed connection? If high speed > why not pick up a router like the Lin

Re: [Eug-lug] Smoothwall (www.smoothwall.org) experience?

2005-05-03 Thread Jamie
Ive been doing this for about a year now, and I really dont miss fussing with an old firewall pc at all. I actually have that model, and its a real nice unit... You can find them real cheap just about every week in the sunday ads if you need one. Jamie On Tuesday 03 May 2005 10:32 pm, Mr O wro

Re: [Eug-lug] Smoothwall (www.smoothwall.org) experience?

2005-05-03 Thread Mr O
Welcome to our semi-regularly active random location meetings group. As for a recommendation to your question, are you providing a firewall for a dial-up or high speed connection? If high speed why not pick up a router like the Linksys WRT54G which sells nearly everywhere for $49 these days. It's

[Eug-lug] Smoothwall (www.smoothwall.org) experience?

2005-05-03 Thread Walter Hurst
Hello, As a new member to this group, I gotta say that I'm impressed with the amount of traffic and active users. I haven't had the chance to attend any meetings yet but I hopefully will sometime this summer. Now onto my question... I was wondering if anybody has any experience with the Smoothwa