SmoothWall Installation and Setup.

[RedRed]

A most excellent tutorial!

I have smoothwall myself (on a PII 233, Abit LX6), 64 Mb Ram and a 4 gig HD.

I set it up in the attic (I installed some RJ45 in the house when it was getting rewired)....


I removed ALL the fans (including the PSU) from the box, you cant hear it at all - its been 2 months since its last reboot.... - the heatsink is warm to the touch - but seems OK (In the roofspace, ambient temperature probably reaches 20C....) The case is removed, the is a mains powered smoke alram fitted to the Joist above it - wifes rule.


I got myself a domain, through NO-ip.com, and am testing it out at the moment - it all seems cool. Its really easy to set up through smoothwall....

I have one problem - one of the patches doesnt seem to install, but apart from that everything is cool.

I do have another small problem... the box I want to set up as the WWW/FTP server (and possibly games server - it wont see much action in its primary roles) has to live on my GREEN line for the moment - I dont have more RJ54 in that room !!! - not smoothwalls fault

It is a good idea to label the connections - I normally work from the idea that the bottom is BAD (red), middle is DODGY (amber) and top is GOOD (green), but you could also use traffic light colours.....



Good luck with your smoothwall experiences!

[WyWyWyWy]

OSDN pays people to write reviews/articles like that I think!
Now submit it
(newsforge)

[MultimediaMan]

Thanks for the kind words...

There is a problem they are working on regarding free memory and Snort: when you try to install the updates, disable the Web Proxy, VPN, Snort and anything else you can get away with. This should free up enough memory to install all updates.

I'm currently running GPL1.0 on one HDD, but my latest infatuation is GPL2.0Beta4 on another.

New things in GPL 2.0B4: 2.4 Kernel, EXT3 File system (An absolute Must - Think of it as NTFS for Linux) Support for static IPs on the Green LAN. A much cleaner Web interface.

GPL2.0B4 hated my Linksys Cards (wouldn't load a module that would work with them), so I switched to Intel cards and have had no further issues.

Yea, they might pay for those kinds of articles, but that would take all the fun out of writing them.

Better to share with my mates here (and a couple of other places) and get people involved at the grass roots level.

[HedsSpaz]

I also set one of these up a week or two ago when MM originally posted this article. I used an aged P75 with 48mb ram and a 1gb fujitsu HD.

The install went basically smoothly, all except for arguably the most important segment of the setup. I was using two 3com 3c905x PCI cards and nothing I tried would make it behave with both of them. The green NIC worked fine but I absolutely could not get the red NIC to pull an IP address from my cable modem. Eventually I put a cheapo realtek in to replace one of the 3com's and suddenly everything worked fine. So, it's not just Linksys NIC's that cause it to have a shit fit, it doesn't like 3com either. I used the v1.0 release.

Unfortunately I don't really have any place to put the thing at the moment. I tried putting it in my closet but between the PSU fan and the HD it was just too noisy to leave it running 24/7. So for the time being I've gone back to my Linksys router till I figure out a solution.

Ian

PS. Great write up MM. I'd never thought to look into something like this before and would never have found this if not for your tutorial.

[MultimediaMan]

Smoothwall Express Version 2.0 GPL Final will be posted later today for those interested, a tutorial for GPL 2.0 is nearing completion.

[Technoid]

Great

I've been waiting for it

[Technoid]

The site is getting Clobbered, slow as hell