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