RE: [SLUG] smoothwall for home firewall

["Elliott-Brennan" <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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:lyle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, 16 September 2004 10:05 AM
To: slug@xxxxxxxxxxx
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