Smooth Wall – 3555 days old

[Walden]

Has anyone had any type of work with this firewall. Heard it was bullet proof, which is what i am looking for. I have an old PII with a 2gigHD i want to make into a firewall...

[Case]

YES, YES, YES!

By all means download it! Only 20MB, small footprint, can use with older computers for a firewall, and it is good!

Protects my network of Windows XP computers from the bad world out there.

I've used various tools to test my security, and I'm pretty much invisible on the web.

The interface is all through your browser, so I run my Linux box 24/7, no keyboard, mouse, or monitor (after it's set up) and I love it!



EDIT: Oh, I think Martz uses it too . . .

[Walden]

Yeah i tried to load it last night, but no dice. I don't have an IDE cd-rom for that old tower... We have a tons laying around the shop though, i'll just give one of those a try...

I didn't think there was anybut IDE cd-roms!

[Walden]

Alright playing with it at work. I setup it up all nice and neat, but now i can't get to it. I read how you're supposed to get to it

http:// IP: 455 or /81
https://Name:455/81
neither work..

But i can ping it!!! both ways!!!

[Case]

Damn! I ran into that exact problem yesterday setting up a new computer on my network, and for the life of me I can't remember what I did to solve it

Something simple . . . .

But yeah, my address for the Linux box is:

http://192.168.1.1:81/cgi-bin/index.cgi

(copied and pasted URL)

EDIT: I think what I did was have Taylor log onto Smoothwall on another computer, and reboot the Linux box. I think I was able to detect it after it came back up on the network. Pretty sure that was what took care of it. Sorry I can't remember exactly . . . .

[Case]

Originally posted by Walden
http:// IP: 455 or /81
https://Name:455/81

I think it should be http://[address]:81, rather than /81

same for the secure port, or using the name instead of the address . . .

[Walden]

tired that, I still get a connection refused. I can't even ping my boxes now. i tracerouted it... 3 hops(which is right) then fails.

I can't even load it at home, on account of my non ide cd-rom...

[Walden]

When i type in
http://smoothwall:445

it bring me to the smoothwall homepage...very wierd

[Walden]

Well i just said screw it, so now it's just sitting there, with no os on it. Gotta find one that has scsi cd-rom drivers, Red Hat 9 i'm guessing?

[Case]

What version are you using Skamps? Welcome back BTW

The latest is version 1.0, and there are 9 available patches for it . . .

http://smoothwall.org/get/download/patches/

[Case]

I use Smoothwall, but it has been set it and forget it with me.

Here is a thread in their forums that addresses your problem, after a fashion . . . .

http://community.smoothwall.org/foru...opic.php?t=838

Basically it's a known problem that was introduced with one of earlier patches. Fix 6 for GPL 1.0 should have fixed it, but obviously, it didn't in all cases, there are a few messages here and on the mailing list where people claim that the IDS doesn't seem to start automatically.

I had this happen only once (and it was ok after some test reboots, so un-reproducable), so it could have been simply a page update snafu.

Hitting the save button on the IDS page should definitely start it again and until the problem is reproducable and therefor fixable for the Smoothwall developers, the quickest and easiest solution...

So it's a known issue, and they haven't fixed it yet

Still a good proggie

[NightShade737]

I take it this wouldnt work with a ADSL Router, would it?

NS

[Case]

Don't know. If you had your router running into your SmoothWall (Linux) box, and then to your network?

All Smoothwall is is a Linux Distro, about 20MB, that turns an older computer into a firewall. Works real good.

We only have dialup here, so I have a modem in the Linux box, and connect through a switch to my Windows Network.

[Walden]

yeah the cool thing abou it is, that once you set it up, you can take away the screen, mouse, keyboard, and just have the tower. also, you can't have anything else on it, while the smoothwall it on it also.

[floppybootstomp]

Would this work on a really old board? I'm sure I have an old pentium 90 board and all the bits in a box somewhere, and I think I have an AT case for it as well.

[Case]

To successfully install and use a SmoothWall system to
protect your network it is necessary to have a spare PC
that can be made available for use as a dedicated
SmoothWall system. Any data stored on the hard drive
of this donor PC will be overwritten without checking
as part of the installation, so it is imperative to back up
any data that is considered to be valuable beforehand.
This donor PC needs to be an Intel 486-compatible,
Pentium, or higher (Pentium II, Pentium III), and it is
recommended that a minimum of 16Mb of RAM is
fitted for optimal performance.

I tried to install it on a 486-DX2/66 but was unsuccessful, as I couldn't boot from the CD, and didn't want to mess with making a Linux Boot Disk for Smoothwall, so ended up putting it on an old Dell Optiplex GXMT5166 – 166MHz Pentium, 2 X 16MB RAM and a 2 GB HDD. Onboard sound, video, NIC.

Did have to get an older CD-ROM because the Dell wouldn't work with a 56X CD-ROM . . . .

[martzweb]

sorry i'm so late getting to this party......

my smoothie is a p100 with 64mb of ram and a 1 gig hdd. network wise i have an avm fritz internal isdn card, and a realtek 8139b for the lan interface. most recent updates applied, and it works just grand

NS ..... yes you probably could run it with a dsl router, but you would need to disable dhcp serving on your router, and have the smoothie connected in line between it and your lan. what router are you using ??

walden .... sounds to me like your smoothie hasn't been registered with the godawful M$ dns table so if you fancy getting your hands dirty, you could simply add it to your hosts file on each machine and that issue will be resolved.