On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 08:03:44PM +0000, Bob Bauer wrote:
> 2. is this product any good.  I haven't seen any hacks for 
> it yet but I don't know if it is any good.

I don't have any first hand experience with smoothwall, but I know
of some diskette-based alternatives:

  http://www.coyotelinux.com/
  http://leaf.sourceforge.net/

Also, Mandrake and SuSE both offer firewall products:

  http://www.mandrakesoft.com/products/snf
  http://www.suse.com/us/products/suse_business/firewall/

And there's always [OT] OpenBSD:

  http://www.openbsd.org/

Apparently, Smoothwall recently received a bad review from c't
(Slashdot discussion):

  http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/01/09/2050237

Joel