ADP

Hi all,

Just moved house, ADSL incoming in a few days or so, I plan to do the following:

http://www.applus.plus.com/apnet/apnet_frame.htm

Using:

http://www.smoothwall.org for firewall and routing

and this for a Wireless Access Point: http://www.linksys.com/support/displ...id=501&scid=35

does this look sensible? or am I making a dumb error?

Andy

judgejules

Looks good. Almost the same as my config

~Jules

chiark

I'd have a look at ipcop.org rather than smoothwall, but other than that looks excellent

class_A

Also check out ClarkConnect and Mandrake Network Firewall. Both are free for personal use.

At the moment I'm running ClarkConnect and am quite happy with it. Here's why I don't use Smoothwall.

ADP

Cant say i entirely understand the conversation going on< however every firewall has its weaknesses _ ive used quite a few different linux firewalls at work two of which got hacked to bits and rendered useless _ smoothwall was the only one we never had a problem with>>>>>>

Gedi

ADP, for security reasons, I really wouldn't advise displaying your network setup on the net like that.

As for the firewall strength, unless set up by an experienced security expert, any firewall (esspecially local windows ones like zonealarm etc) are pretty easy to bypass for good hackers.

I have seen PIX's and IPTables firewalls that have been setup by 'so called' experts with holes in. Easy meat.

ADP

Ah Im not fussed, its a pretty standard setup really. Havent given any Ips out, and besides both my housemates are network engineers, and I know a little so I reckon as a home setup goes well be better off than most! My pc will also be sat behind Norton just as an added bonus

Tsunami

firewalls? I hear checkpoint is the daddy....