Mandrake SNF

[Aaron]

I use smoothwall and I think it's great.  I'm considering forking out the
$117 for the commercial version...  I'd probably pay $117 for the free
version...  it's well worth it.

Aaron

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dustin Decker" <dustind at moon-lite.com>
To: <kclug at kclug.org>
Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 3:04 PM
Subject: Re: Mandrake SNF

> On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
>
> > One other thing, they have an "Update Software" command on the GUI
> > Configuration Manager, but the mirror list is blank so you can't use it.
> > This is on the download version.  I would probably recommend that a
> > non-Linux user who's contemplating this purchase the version with
> > documentation, it's probably a lot easier to set up that way.
>
> If you're looking for a black-box approach to a firewall device, I would
> highly recommend Smoothwall.  www.smoothwall.org
>
> The GPL version is quite feature laden, and the commercial version
> (weighing in at $117.00 USD after conversion) is fabulous.  VPN support
> (based on FreeSwan) works right out of the box, with a lot of other nice
> items such as automatically generated traffic graphs, clients for most
> of the popular dynamic dns services, isdn, usb modem support, etc.
>
> Dustin