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<a href="http://www.download.com/3000-2092-10039884.html?part=zonealarm&subj=dlpage&tag=button" rel="ugc">http://www.download.com/3000-2092-10039884.html?part=zonealarm&subj=dlpage&tag=button</a> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;some would say this is the best freebie out there.
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http://www.download.com/3000-2092-10039884.html?part=zonealarm&subj=dlpage&tag=button [http://www.download.com/3000-2092-10039884.html?part=zonealarm&subj=dlpage&tag=button]      some would say this is the best freebie out there.

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I kind of like Smoothwall, we used it as a secondary Gateway (failover) on a network and it worked out well.<br />
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I can't claim to have spent a lot of time configuring it, ours was a pretty simple stop everyone coming in and let a (very) few things out. Things that could be very easily done though the graphical interface.<br />
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All in all, not too bad and worth trying if you want a dedicated firewall, but I wouldn't replace our Checkpoint Firewall with it (of course Checkpoint is far from free...).<br />
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HTH
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I kind of like Smoothwall, we used it as a secondary Gateway (failover) on a network and it worked out well.

I can't claim to have spent a lot of time configuring it, ours was a pretty simple stop everyone coming in and let a (very) few things out. Things that could be very easily done though the graphical interface.

All in all, not too bad and worth trying if you want a dedicated firewall, but I wouldn't replace our Checkpoint Firewall with it (of course Checkpoint is far from free...).

HTH

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Hi,<br />
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I've recently replaced my PC with a newer machine and as such its left me with a rather old PC.<br />
<br />
Whilst browsing the internet I came across this website <a href="http://www.smoothwall.org" rel="ugc">http://www.smoothwall.org</a>.<br />
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This offers a free firewall solutions that you install on a dedicated machine.<br />
<br />
Has anybody here used this / heard of this. Is it any good, worth implementing ?<br />
<br />
TIA.<br />

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Hi,

I've recently replaced my PC with a newer machine and as such its left me with a rather old PC.

Whilst browsing the internet I came across this website http://www.smoothwall.org.

This offers a free firewall solutions that you install on a dedicated machine.

Has anybody here used this / heard of this. Is it any good, worth implementing ?

TIA.


Smoothwall - Any good ?

Software firewalls, also known as host-based firewalls, provide a layer of software on one host that controls network traffic in and out of that single machine. Most operating systems now include firewall software, but many available software firewalls include central distribution, antivirus systems and disaster recovery.