Hey, any of you guys used Smooth Wall before? I have a old PII box i want to make into a firewall. Heard anything good/bad about it??

Thanks a bunch

No prob. Smoothwall was simple for me and it does the trick. The beta version has a linux 2.4.20 kernel that supports iptables.

I think the non-beta version, 1.0, or whatever it is, supports ipchains.

regards...

I can't get to it from my machine. I followed their insctructins to the letter, and no dice. I can ping my firewall, from my box, and ping my box from my firewall.

I used Smoothwall for two days before switching to IPCop

GPL Smoothwall is a gimper version of their commercial product (which they sell), so they intentionally withhold features from the GPL release. IPCop is a fork of GPL Smoothwall that is being developed by totally different people. It's much more advanced, and the user community is signifcantly more friendly and helpful (as are the developers).

I would not recommend Smoothwall to anyone.

So, you followed the instructions to the letter and it doesn't work. Then you're screwed. Just kidding.

Where did it not work? What didn't happen? What were your results? etc... etc...

So, are you sure you typed in the 's' in https://whatever:445 ?
Or, I think, not type in the 's' if you use :80.

I checked on icop and apparently it is not a router, just a firewall, so if that is all you need then you might check it out. I don't have a separate router component. My smoothwall machine is my router.

yeah i need that to be both my firewall and router...

i type in http://[ip]:455 or :81

i get connection was refused when attempting to contact [ip]

when i type in http://[ip]
i get a "timed out" error

now i can't even ping either way...what is going on?!

OK, according to the doc I have, if you use 455 then you need https.
If you use 81 or 445, you just need http.

However, here's my actual smoothwall 'homepage' url.
https://192.168.0.1:445/cgi-bin/index.cgi

I'm using https and :445. I think 455 is a typo in the doc.

Give that a try, using your IP, or https://smoothwall:445 .

Good luck.

when i try the smoothwall:445 it get's me to the smooth wall homepage(http://www.smoothwall.org) i'm bout ready to kill this thing

Take a deep breath. You probably just missed something in the install or configuration.
Are you using the orient beta? Did you use https? Did you try https://192.168.n.n:445 ? What did you enter as the machine's hostname during the installation? Did you set up the RED and GREEN and ORANGE stuff correctly? Did you have it setup DHCP correctly? etc... etc...

Yeah i double checked everything thing, i one on board nic, and one 3com nice in a PCI slot. the onboard is green and the 3com is red. On the green nic i have a un-usual ip( on account i'm at work( i want to try it out here,before i do it at my apartment...which i don't think i can do it, beucase my old tower doesn't have an IDE cd-rom, it plugs into a pci card)) but my Green card is from the firewall, i have the LAN going into the box through my red card... which is how it should be...

does smooth wall have adrivers for a non ide cdrom!?

i just said screw it, forget the tower with the scsi cd-rom drive...