Re: Easily configurable firewall?

From: Rob Cessac (rob@nucleon.net)
Date: 12/07/01 

Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 20:49:19 -0600
From: Rob Cessac <rob@nucleon.net>
To: Don Felgar <dfelgar@rainierinternet.com>

Don Felgar wrote:

>Hello all,
>
>By way of background: I need to set up seven firewall/VPN/NAT linux
>boxes now for some small branch offices, and several more down the
>road.
>

Smoothwall is a nice GPL Linux-based firewall solution that supports VPN
and NAT. It is very easy to install and includes a web-based admin
interface. See the web site for more:

http://www.smoothwall.org/

I have recently switched from using a LEAF (Linux Embedded Appliance Firewall) distribution to Smoothwall at home and can honestly say there is no comparison. Smoothwall is a great product!

Rob

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