In this Recipe, I'll explain both the options for firewall protection and the differences between hardware and software implementations. By the end, you should be able to point a client to the ...

My sonicwall firewall just kicked the can and I needed to find a cheap solution, so I downloaded smoothwall, installed in on an old box and set it up. Everything seemed to be working properly as i ...

My current firewall is an OpenBSD 3.3 box that I hand-wrote pf.conf for, manually setup DHCP, DNS (along with dynamic updates), NTP, and external dynamic DNS. I've since turned off DHCP and don't use ...

The award-winning Smoothwall Express open-source firewall—designed specifically to be installed and administered by non-experts—continues its forward development march with a new 3.1 release.

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