Yes. I'm using a dlink 200 USB and smoothwall. I've not used IPCOP, so, sorry, can't help.
Patrick -----Original Message----- From: Phillipus Gunawan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 16 September 2004 8:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SLUG] smoothwall for home firewall Does anybody ever using Smoothwall with Dlink200 with TPG? I've tried IPCop but it seems can not connect to Internet. the box can ping the gateaway, but unable to ping DNS server. --- Elliott-Brennan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've been using Smoothwall for about a month. > > I tested it using (amongst others): > > http://www.grc.com/ > > Go to 'shields up'. > > The site (though I've heard it has it's detractors) > gives you an idea of > which ports are stealthed/closed/open. One of my > Win machines runs > McAfee also (paranoid, me?) and it records only > general activity on my > home network - there are none of the repeated scans > etc that generally > occur on the 'net. > > >From what I can gather, if you use the general > setup, only port 113 is > shown (as closed) - apparently some IRCs don't work > if this is > stealthed. I don't know if this is true as I don't > use IRC software. You > can also redirect port traffic from this port to a > nonsense address > (happy to exchange mail about this - it's new to me > and I'm only just > getting a chance to look at it). > > >From my experience, overall, it would seem that > Smoothwall works well... > anybody else using it? > > Patrick > > -----Original Message----- > From: Lyle Chapman > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 16 September 2004 10:05 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [SLUG] smoothwall for home firewall > > > If anyone has some input I would be grateful, > > I have setup smoothwall at home and was wondering > how it rates in > security > > thanks for any input or advice > > > Lyle Chapman > > Pre-Press Supervisor > Torch Publishing Co. > 47 Allingham Street, Condell Park 2200, NSW, > Australia > 612 9795 0000 > http://www.torchpublishing.com.au > > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - > http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: > http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
