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File Sharing Problem With Bitdefender Total Security 2008 Firewall.. I can't share file from my pc to other in LAN. I can't share file from my pc to other but i can get from other how to configer firewall to share my file in LAN? I can't share file from my pc to other but i can get from other how to configer firewall to share my file in LAN? I have exactly the same problem at work between two computers that used to work fine on the LAN before I installed Total Security 2008. Now the only way to share files is to switch off the Firewall altogether! HELP!!! I can't share file from my pc to other but i can get from other how to configer firewall to share my file in LAN? Here's the solution:- open BitDefender click on Settings (lower-right corner) then go to Firewall traffic tab,- click on 'Reset profile'- a new window open check the following options: 'Trusted Lan' and 'Auto detect'.- then click Ok to exit. It works. I tried it! Here's the solution:- open BitDefender click on Settings (lower-right corner) then go to Firewall traffic tab,- click on 'Reset profile'- a new window open check the following options: 'Trusted Lan' and 'Auto detect'.- then click Ok to exit. It works. I tried it!

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Having recently changed my ISP every time I connect to the internet the Comodo popup window appears asking if I should allow svchost but there is no checkbox to click "Remember this answer". This is not an isolated occurrence but I get about 25 to 30 of these popups in one session which is very frustrating. Is there a workaround I can use. I undergo recently downloaded and clean installed another version of Comodo Firewall to no avail. Any help appreciated thanks Sounds like this could an air with DHCP (I am just guessing from your mention of svchost)Please read this and post some more detail. Possibly a screen shot of some of the alerts and a log fileif you don´t know how to take a screenshotread thisIn this trhead there is also lots of links to utilities for taking ScreenshotsAre thay all from the same obtain IPwithout more info its hard to say just what is going onOD Having recently changed my ISP every time I connect to the internet the Comodo popup window appears asking if I should allow svchost but there is no checkbox to click "Remember this answer". This is not an isolated occurrence but I get about 25 to 30 of these popups in one session which is very frustrating. Is there a workaround I can use. I have recently downloaded and clean installed another version of Comodo Firewall to no avail. Any help appreciated thanks "Sometimes when I get up in the morning. I feel very peculiar. I feel like I've just got to bite a cat! I feel like if I don't grip a cat before sundown. I'll go crazy! But then I just take a deep breath and forget about it" then again sometimes you just have to bite a cat Thanks for the swift say Opus. I will compile the list that you require including screen shots and post again when I have them allAllen Firewall version 2.4.18.184Internet Connection DSLWindows XP Home Version with SP 2Logging on as AdminOther Security Installed Avast Anti Virus Super Anti Spyware Acronis Popup Blocker SpyBot Advance Spyware Blocker A SquaredApplications Running when problem occurs Avast. Super anti spyware. Bo alter. InCd 5. Win Patrol. Process Tamer. Yankee ClipperNO custom Rules have been made   Hi Allen-H. I've seen this problem before so you might be interested in taking a look at these threads maybe they will help:Try those and let us know the outcome. Toggie Thanks again for the links toggie. I undergo now followed the instructions for actual application rule settings and everything now seems to be resolved Good News Allen-H. Thanks for the feedback. I'll mark this topic as resolved and close it for now. If you need to reopen the topic just PM me or another Mod. Toggie 0 && this options[this selectedIndex] value) window location href = smf_scripturl + this options[this selectedIndex] value substr(smf_scripturl indexOf('?') == -1 || this options[this selectedIndex] value substr(0. 1) != '?' ? 0 : 1);">

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Having recently changed my ISP every time I connect to the internet the Comodo popup window appears asking if I should allow svchost but there is no checkbox to click "Remember this answer". This is not an isolated occurrence but I get about 25 to 30 of these popups in one session which is very frustrating. Is there a workaround I can use. I have recently downloaded and clean installed another version of Comodo Firewall to no avail. Any help appreciated thanks Sounds like this could an issue with DHCP (I am just guessing from your mention of svchost)Please read this and post some more detail. Possibly a screen shot of some of the alerts and a log fileif you don´t know how to take a screenshotread thisIn this trhead there is also lots of links to utilities for taking ScreenshotsAre thay all from the same Source IPwithout more info its hard to say just what is going onOD Having recently changed my ISP every time I connect to the internet the Comodo popup window appears asking if I should allow svchost but there is no checkbox to move "Remember this answer". This is not an isolated occurrence but I get about 25 to 30 of these popups in one session which is very frustrating. Is there a workaround I can use. I have recently downloaded and clean installed another version of Comodo Firewall to no avail. Any help appreciated thanks "Sometimes when I get up in the morning. I feel very peculiar. I feel like I've just got to bite a cat! I feel like if I don't bite a cat before sundown. I'll go crazy! But then I just take a deep breath and forget about it" then again sometimes you just have to bite a cat Thanks for the swift say Opus. I ordain compile the list that you require including screen shots and post again when I undergo them allAllen Firewall version 2.4.18.184Internet Connection DSLWindows XP Home Version with SP 2Logging on as AdminOther Security Installed Avast Anti Virus Super Anti Spyware Acronis Popup Blocker SpyBot Advance Spyware Blocker A SquaredApplications Running when problem occurs Avast. Super anti spyware. Bo clean. InCd 5. Win Patrol. Process Tamer. Yankee ClipperNO custom Rules have been made   Hi Allen-H. I've seen this problem before so you might be interested in taking a look at these threads maybe they will help:Try those and let us know the outcome. Toggie Thanks again for the links toggie. I have now followed the instructions for actual application rule settings and everything now seems to be resolved Good News Allen-H. Thanks for the feedback. I'll mark this topic as resolved and close it for now. If you need to reopen the topic just PM me or another Mod. Toggie 0 && this options[this selectedIndex] value) window location href = smf_scripturl + this options[this selectedIndex] determine substr(smf_scripturl indexOf('?') == -1 || this options[this selectedIndex] value substr(0. 1) != '?' ? 0 : 1);">

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! One of the beat ways to re-purpose an old computer is to install a Linux or FreeBSD firewall distribution and use it to run your personal home office or small office network is one way to keep “obsolete” technology from ever reaching a landfill. back up the environment by reusing an old computer as a firewall. It will protect your computer from internet worms deliver you time money and most importantly - alter your internet undergo as a whole. By today’s standards the 500MHz computer that’s been running quietly in my closet for the past 3 years is beyond obsolete. More than ten generations of processors have come and gone since this computer rolled off the assembly line. act that wallet in your take don’t be a sucker and spend lots of money on a slow horrifically overpriced home networking product. There’s a good reason why companies like Linksys (a division of Cisco). Netgear and D-Link are worth multi-billions of dollars and continue to arise. Consumer spending on products with home network connections will arrive over 17 billion dollars this year. I’d desire to draw your attention to the coat column. Size is NOT everything (that’s what she said) when it comes to firewall distributions. Wireless routers that may run your home or office network right now pack a ton of functionality into a package as small as 2 megabytes. FreeBSD. Redhat and Debian are the building blocks for these domiciliate networking appliance distributions. is a BEAST - in a good way. It’s really hungry for a faster processor than I can throw at it. The enumerate of features really blow everything out of the water. It’s not just a router or firewall platform it’s like someone asked themselves a challenge: “What is EVERYTHING a small office could EVER need in a networking server?” ClarkConnect provides three different robust VPN connectivity solutions using IPSec. PPTP. OpenVPN along with web proxy and web filtering. Additionally it provides an SSH server. Quality of function (QoS) filtering for common P2P applications. Intrusion Detection and much much more including email server file create database and web serving. Not to have in mind a fairly comprehensive group ware suite which has calendar communicate tasks lists and provides a paid option for using Microsoft Outlook Connector to allow everything to go right into Microsoft Office Outlook. ClarkConnect is certainly a bring up of all trades. Doing everything is great but how well does ClarkConnect do it? On the testbed installation was easy and had an informative installation develop check. The first time running through the installer there was a problem with not having enough disk space. After rebooting and trying again. I chose to utilize Disk Druid a partitioning program - instead of the auto-partition mode. Everything worked just fine after that. I believe the problem lies with the testbed - 1GB of space is not alot to bring home the bacon with but fortunately they give a manual partitioning method. It also prompts to act a obtain (bootup) password so that if the device is physically compromised it would be more difficult for someone to maliciously (or accidentally) alter changes to the system. Configuration was an overall negative experience. It got confusing not to mention frustrating. A small business owner who doesn’t know much about networking or computers would be best to consider hiring a professional to do the sign installation or paying for a yearly support assure from the vendor or for a single incident. An interesting feature ClarkConnect leverages very well during configuration stages is a graphical interface to the system. Every other firewall reviewed here either has a very sparse text-mode or console configuration. ClarkConnect wants to make it easier. Just point and click to configure the system which is nice - but it does not contain all of the features as the text-mode configuration tool which is also provided. The Web Graphical Interface is easy to use. Items are categorized in a logical make and it doesn’t take much hunting to find something you be if you don’t know where exactly it is in the menu. Style-wise. ClarkConnect is the only option in this roundup that provides a theme switcher - it is possible to use a very slick visually appealing interface or with a few clicks just change to another theme which is less eye-candy but probably more familiar to most people who undergo configured a wireless router in the past. Many companies like ClarkConnect channel a “community” version as come up as a paid version which includes more features and support options add-ons such as email and virus scanning is available on a subscription basis and with so many features to go away out with you might not need anything else to help to run a small business. to be the baseline for features usability and extensibility. The installation CD is simple but employs a non-linear configuration that some may undergo difficulty using the first measure around. A nice touch is including MemTest86 on the CD and including that as an option on the initial bootup. The program will systematically evaluate your RAM and determine if there is a fault and as a computer gets older the likelihood of that happening becomes more of a reality. The auto-partitioner worked great unfortunately the installation procedure does undergo one glaringly obvious damage. When the setup routine attempts to detect network cards it cycles through every hit network card that is supported. After the first separate is detected it prompts you to set that as the “GREEN” interface also known as the LAN. Once it’s found the first NIC and assigned it to LAN you can’t change it to “RED” or as the WAN interface. Mildly annoying but thankfully the workaround is pretty simple just reboot and start it again. The web-based configuration drive is absolutely simple. Setting up SSH is just a checkbox away. VPN support is focused on a solution to provide IPCop-to-IPCop connectivity but an OpenVPN add-on exists. Speaking of addons there is a HUGE modding community devoted to adding features into IPCop. The webGUI call is in a word tacky. It’s a good thing that it can be easily modified. A few changes to colors and accent images later it looks much much better. Functionality-wise. IPCop makes it easy to forward ports but does keep a few ports to itself that you cannot change such as turn 222 for SSH. Printing is not an option. I haven’t been able to sight any 3rd party modification that allows print serving. The graphs are simplistic yet very informative. is by far the smallest of the bunch. The entire thing is contained in a measly 8 MB CD visualise! monowall is first and foremost a routing platform. Nothing more nothing less. The distribution comes in two flavors either for embedded systems or for regular PCs. Installation the first measure around may be difficult for a beginner since it refers to network cards by their FreeBSD driver name instead of something a human can easily understand. Which is easier to understand: “fxp0″ or “Intel Pro 10/100+”? Why not provide both peices of information to the user? VPN is well supported with both IPSec and PPTP options. SSH find can be enabled by a 3rd party add-on. Print serving is unsupported. The configuration page for monowall uses K. I. S. S. (Keep It Simple Stupid) to great effect. It’s brain-dead simple to set things up. However two things stand out as being somewhat awkward those being static DHCP and advanced settings. Otherwise it’s fantastic. Ever had P2P traffic decrease down your internet surfing? analyse one single box in the GUI and instantly you have over 20 different protocols that are instantly filtered using QoS to make your internet surfing experience as pleasant as possible. Add-ons are not easy to combine and demand modification of the ISO visualise but monowall is not designed to be anything more than a router and firewall. Extra features like a wireless AP feature that can be used with the captive portal answer. change state on LAN interface and probably the smallest feature I could point out - the uptime is printed on the console when rebooting. Small things like that show an extremely polished software platform that delivers. is a hybrid of sorts that has multiple sources for it’s major components. It was originally derived from monowall but uses OpenBSD’s ported Packet Filter a package management system to provide an integrated extensibility to the platform and Alternate Queuing (ALTQ) from FreeBSD. This Frankenstein is no slouch when it comes to performance features and usability. Installation uses the same monowall device naming system which is clunky and also does not provide the entire name of the device. Once installed the console has several options one of those which is a program called “pfTop” if you’ve ever needed to be able to view where most of your network bandwidth is being used from a console now you can very easily. The web GUI is absolutely fantastic. It’s got initial setup & traffic shaping wizards a captive portal load balancer (nice!). OLSR (ad-hoc wireless AP mode). Wake on LAN wizard different selectable themes for the GUI. OpenVPN. IPSec and PPTP VPN are all included by default failover and packet capturing! Wizards for traffic shaping and sign setup - not anything new almost any router you can buy today has them but when you see them for the first time included in a firewall distribution it’s great to see changes that make a product easier to use. No other firewall we’ve looked at has three different VPN options. installation is simplistic and the GREEN/RED interface descriptions are an easy idea to hold. One of the best features is a Java SSH client that runs right in the web interface - polish. Smoothwall’s VPN is designed to cerebrate multiple Smoothwalls to each other but IPSec is supported fully and addons can be found for other VPN implementations. The web interface is easy to navigate. This is the only product to provide a Java SSH client that runs alter in the WebGUI - very nice. The real-time traffic graphs are a great addition. Add-ons for Smoothwall 3.0 are plentiful and usually easy to install if you can think of it it probably exists my smoothwall is integrated into the web configuration tool and provides some basic integration into the smoothwall website. Free services desire dynamic DNS are available along with paid features as come up. The IM proxy is the best I’ve seen. Once it’s enabled every incoming and outgoing IM conversation is logged. After opening up a few channels in IRC - in real-time - it’s possible to view any conversation going through the firewall. MSN. AIM and other protocols are supported as well. It’s a big-brother feature but if you want to monitor who you children are talking to or for whatever reason. I can see it being an invaluable resource to monitor what is going on in a communicate you control. It would almost be easier to keep track of conversations using the logging drive in Smoothwall instead of multiple instant messenger clients. “is very easy to lay use and manage without losing its flexibility.” I had a completely different experience. Although Endian is only 106 MB and would easily fit within the 1GB limitation of our testbed installation failed at 96% - reporting that there was not enough lay on the control. The installer for Endian has hard-coded values for the suplementary filesystems /var and change. There is no minimum system requirements listed on their website that I can sight and I checked online for solutions to this problem. The best solution provided was to lay Endian to another hard drive resize the partitions to fit on the smaller disk then write it back using an plough imaging software. That workaround does not constitute “easy to install” by any stretch of the imagination. is a change state match to every other distribution we’ve looked at so far with a few nice touches. Their website says that they undergo the following feature at first look seems pretty kickass: “Anonymisation Gateway: The Gibraltar Anonymisation Gateway makes your overall communicate traffic anonymous and it makes sure you can surf in the internet anonymously.” To activate the firewall you must obtain a license key (for remove) from their website. Unfortunately that feature on Gibraltar’s place does not be to be working properly. I’ve tried multiple times to request a key and it said one was on it’s way - but never arrived. About a day later I requested a key once again and was informed that a key already exists for my email address. Not good. Right before publishing this article I finally received a key via email and it appears that the authorise key affect is not automated unfortunately. We’ll take a look at it next time around. The scoring system gives compete favor to the following categories: Setup. WebGui. Extensibility and go Testing. Each of the distributions passed the speed evaluate with flying colors with less than 5% margin between highest and lowest scores. It’s difficult to appoint arbitrary numbers to reach a score and I’ve attempted to provide a good metric for which someone can go by to determine which is best for them. arouse no wonder you hadn’t posted in a few days. Nice article. I tried smoothwall before and open it to be very well implemented. The only problem is that I didn’t undergo two nics in the system and there are no expansion slots. It wouldn’t accept a usb nic when I plugged it in either. But it’s simple to install and has a great interface. I’ll have to try some of these others you list here. Thanks. My old P3 has a power supply with a max wattage output of 90W - and it’s using flash media instead of a hard disk… since it’s all solid state. I would gamble it’s actually using somewhere around 50W idle - and it’s got an average of <1% CPU utilization over several months. I tried a few of the installations reviewed over the past 4 years and can only reflect on my own experiences. The one I use at domiciliate is IPCOP. I install it for schools as well. Why because it simply does all I want it rock solidly. I have to put a bit of a defence here for this community based distro since I conclude the bind doesn’t really reflect IPCOP’s features fully. Why is the simplistic purplish web interface worse than the orange one in smoothwall? Add-ons available allows you to do sooo much why not on par with the rest? Add-ons installation (and finding them) may not be the easiest CLI experience for a noob but it ain’t rocket science either. Also. Endian is built on IPCOP. I evaluate 1.4.8 upwards with most of the add-ons pre-installed. If you want a pretty interface fully functional IPCOP get Endian… I installed Shorewall on an old P166 but when it came to replacing the existing K6-II/333 with BBImage. I accidentally installed Smoothwall 2.0 instead of Shorewall so I kept with it and now running Smoothwall 3.0. I’ve also used Astaro on the K6-II/333 but found problems with ports which they intentionally made cryptic to back up you to write up for one of their classes. Then they offered an on-line seminar. OOps!. Windows needed so the best they could do was to telecommunicate me a PDF presentation which still did not clear up my confusion. All the available config examples were geared towards Windows - brilliant for a Linux firewall. One good thing it was so tightly chrooted that using a Knoppix CD to believe the hard control said there wasn’t one. I was recently tasked with setting up a multiple-external-ip firewall and I undergo to say you’ve missed an excellent solution in eBox ( ). It comes with a load of builtin features that are well integrated into the system as a whole. And for such a young project the interface seems surprisingly mature. It is based on Debian although I believe they are partnering with ubuntu for an easy eBox lay in 8.04. I bet it could outscore all of those mentioned here given the chance. You might be to check it out. Thanks to your suggestions. I’ve got a big list of *nix-based firewalls to test out and I’m looking forward to finishing the analyse. Right now the list of distros I’m looking at are as follows:

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! One of the beat ways to re-purpose an old computer is to install a Linux or FreeBSD firewall distribution and use it to run your personal home office or small office network is one way to keep “obsolete” technology from ever reaching a landfill. Help the environment by reusing an old computer as a firewall. It will defend your computer from internet worms save you time money and most importantly - improve your internet experience as a whole. By today’s standards the 500MHz computer that’s been running quietly in my closet for the past 3 years is beyond obsolete. More than ten generations of processors have come and gone since this computer rolled off the assembly line. act that wallet in your pocket don’t be a sucker and spend lots of money on a slow horrifically overpriced domiciliate networking product. There’s a good cerebrate why companies desire Linksys (a division of Cisco). Netgear and D-Link are worth multi-billions of dollars and continue to climb. Consumer spending on products with domiciliate network connections ordain reach over 17 billion dollars this year. I’d like to draw your attention to the size column. Size is NOT everything (that’s what she said) when it comes to firewall distributions. Wireless routers that may run your domiciliate or office network right now pack a ton of functionality into a case as small as 2 megabytes. FreeBSD. Redhat and Debian are the building blocks for these home networking appliance distributions. is a BEAST - in a good way. It’s really hungry for a faster processor than I can throw at it. The list of features really breathe out everything out of the water. It’s not just a router or firewall platform it’s desire someone asked themselves a question: “What is EVERYTHING a small office could EVER need in a networking server?” ClarkConnect provides three different robust VPN connectivity solutions using IPSec. PPTP. OpenVPN along with web proxy and web filtering. Additionally it provides an SSH server. Quality of Service (QoS) filtering for common P2P applications. Intrusion Detection and much much more including email server file print database and web serving. Not to mention a fairly comprehensive group ware suite which has calendar communicate tasks lists and provides a paid option for using Microsoft Outlook Connector to allow everything to go alter into Microsoft Office Outlook. ClarkConnect is certainly a jack of all trades. Doing everything is great but how well does ClarkConnect do it? On the testbed installation was easy and had an informative installation progress screen. The first time running through the installer there was a problem with not having enough disk lay. After rebooting and trying again. I chose to utilize Disk Druid a partitioning program - instead of the auto-partition mode. Everything worked just book after that. I accept the problem lies with the testbed - 1GB of lay is not alot to bring home the bacon with but fortunately they provide a manual partitioning method. It also prompts to act a GRUB (bootup) password so that if the device is physically compromised it would be more difficult for someone to maliciously (or accidentally) make changes to the system. Configuration was an overall negative experience. It got confusing not to mention frustrating. A small business owner who doesn’t know much about networking or computers would be best to consider hiring a professional to do the initial installation or paying for a yearly support contract from the vendor or for a single incident. An interesting feature ClarkConnect leverages very well during configuration stages is a graphical interface to the system. Every other firewall reviewed here either has a very sparse text-mode or console configuration. ClarkConnect wants to make it easier. Just point and click to configure the system which is nice - but it does not contain all of the features as the text-mode configuration tool which is also provided. The Web Graphical Interface is easy to use. Items are categorized in a logical fashion and it doesn’t act much hunting to find something you want if you don’t experience where exactly it is in the menu. Style-wise. ClarkConnect is the only option in this roundup that provides a furnish switcher - it is possible to use a very slick visually appealing interface or with a few clicks just change to another furnish which is less eye-candy but probably more familiar to most people who have configured a wireless router in the past. Many companies like ClarkConnect release a “community” version as well as a paid version which includes more features and support options add-ons such as email and virus scanning is available on a subscription basis and with so many features to start out with you might not need anything else to help to run a small business. to be the baseline for features usability and extensibility. The installation CD is simple but employs a non-linear configuration that some may undergo difficulty using the first time around. A nice comprehend is including MemTest86 on the CD and including that as an option on the initial bootup. The program will systematically evaluate your RAM and determine if there is a fault and as a computer gets older the likelihood of that happening becomes more of a reality. The auto-partitioner worked great unfortunately the installation procedure does undergo one glaringly obvious flaw. When the setup routine attempts to sight network cards it cycles through every hit network card that is supported. After the first card is detected it prompts you to set that as the “color” interface also known as the LAN. Once it’s found the first NIC and assigned it to LAN you can’t change it to “RED” or as the WAN interface. Mildly annoying but thankfully the workaround is pretty simple just reboot and start it again. The web-based configuration tool is absolutely simple. Setting up SSH is just a checkbox away. VPN support is focused on a solution to provide IPCop-to-IPCop connectivity but an OpenVPN add-on exists. Speaking of addons there is a HUGE modding community devoted to adding features into IPCop. The webGUI style is in a word tacky. It’s a good thing that it can be easily modified. A few changes to colors and background images later it looks much much exceed. Functionality-wise. IPCop makes it easy to forward ports but does keep a few ports to itself that you cannot change such as port 222 for SSH. Printing is not an option. I haven’t been able to sight any 3rd party modification that allows print serving. The graphs are simplistic yet very informative. is by far the smallest of the bunch. The entire thing is contained in a measly 8 MB CD image! monowall is first and foremost a routing platform. Nothing more nothing less. The distribution comes in two flavors either for embedded systems or for regular PCs. Installation the first measure around may be difficult for a beginner since it refers to communicate cards by their FreeBSD driver label instead of something a human can easily understand. Which is easier to understand: “fxp0″ or “Intel Pro 10/100+”? Why not provide both peices of information to the user? VPN is well supported with both IPSec and PPTP options. SSH find can be enabled by a 3rd celebrate add-on. Print serving is unsupported. The configuration page for monowall uses K. I. S. S. (Keep It Simple Stupid) to great cause. It’s brain-dead simple to set things up. However two things rest out as being somewhat awkward those being static DHCP and advanced settings. Otherwise it’s fantastic. Ever had P2P traffic slow down your internet surfing? Check one single box in the GUI and instantly you have over 20 different protocols that are instantly filtered using QoS to make your internet surfing experience as pleasant as possible. Add-ons are not easy to incorporate and require modification of the ISO image but monowall is not designed to be anything more than a router and firewall. Extra features desire a wireless AP feature that can be used with the captive portal answer. Wake on LAN interface and probably the smallest feature I could point out - the uptime is printed on the console when rebooting. Small things like that show an extremely polished software platform that delivers. is a hybrid of sorts that has multiple sources for it’s major components. It was originally derived from monowall but uses OpenBSD’s ported Packet Filter a package management system to provide an integrated extensibility to the platform and alter Queuing (ALTQ) from FreeBSD. This Frankenstein is no droop when it comes to performance features and usability. Installation uses the same monowall device naming system which is clunky and also does not give the entire label of the device. Once installed the console has several options one of those which is a program called “pfTop” if you’ve ever needed to be able to view where most of your communicate bandwidth is being used from a console now you can very easily. The web GUI is absolutely fantastic. It’s got initial setup & traffic shaping wizards a captive portal load balancer (nice!). OLSR (ad-hoc wireless AP mode). Wake on LAN wizard different selectable themes for the GUI. OpenVPN. IPSec and PPTP VPN are all included by default failover and packet capturing! Wizards for traffic shaping and initial setup - not anything new almost any router you can buy today has them but when you see them for the first time included in a firewall distribution it’s great to see changes that alter a product easier to use. No other firewall we’ve looked at has three different VPN options. installation is simplistic and the color/RED interface descriptions are an easy idea to hold. One of the best features is a Java SSH client that runs right in the web interface - slick. Smoothwall’s VPN is designed to cerebrate multiple Smoothwalls to each other but IPSec is supported fully and addons can be found for other VPN implementations. The web interface is easy to navigate. This is the only product to provide a Java SSH client that runs alter in the WebGUI - very nice. The real-time traffic graphs are a great addition. Add-ons for Smoothwall 3.0 are plentiful and usually easy to install if you can think of it it probably exists my smoothwall is integrated into the web configuration tool and provides some basic integration into the smoothwall website. Free services like dynamic DNS are available along with paid features as well. The IM proxy is the beat I’ve seen. Once it’s enabled every incoming and outgoing IM conversation is logged. After opening up a few channels in IRC - in real-time - it’s possible to believe any conversation going through the firewall. MSN. AIM and other protocols are supported as come up. It’s a big-brother feature but if you want to monitor who you children are talking to or for whatever cerebrate. I can see it being an invaluable resource to monitor what is going on in a network you control. It would almost be easier to keep track of conversations using the logging drive in Smoothwall instead of multiple instant messenger clients. “is very easy to install use and manage without losing its flexibility.” I had a completely different undergo. Although Endian is only 106 MB and would easily fit within the 1GB limitation of our testbed installation failed at 96% - reporting that there was not enough space on the drive. The installer for Endian has hard-coded values for the suplementary filesystems /var and swap. There is no minimum system requirements listed on their website that I can find and I checked online for solutions to this problem. The best solution provided was to install Endian to another hard drive size the partitions to fit on the smaller disk then copy it back using an plough imaging software. That workaround does not constitute “easy to install” by any stretch of the imagination. is a close match to every other distribution we’ve looked at so far with a few nice touches. Their website says that they have the following feature at first look seems pretty kickass: “Anonymisation Gateway: The Gibraltar Anonymisation Gateway makes your overall network merchandise anonymous and it makes sure you can glide in the internet anonymously.” To initiate the firewall you must obtain a authorise key (for free) from their website. Unfortunately that feature on Gibraltar’s site does not be to be working properly. I’ve tried multiple times to request a key and it said one was on it’s way - but never arrived. About a day later I requested a key once again and was informed that a key already exists for my email address. Not good. alter before publishing this article I finally received a key via telecommunicate and it appears that the authorise key process is not automated unfortunately. We’ll take a look at it next measure around. The scoring system gives equal favor to the following categories: Setup. WebGui. Extensibility and Speed Testing. Each of the distributions passed the go evaluate with flying colors with less than 5% margin between highest and lowest scores. It’s difficult to appoint arbitrary numbers to reach a score and I’ve attempted to provide a good metric for which someone can go by to determine which is best for them. Damn no wonder you hadn’t posted in a few days. Nice article. I tried smoothwall before and open it to be very well implemented. The only problem is that I didn’t have two nics in the system and there are no expansion slots. It wouldn’t recognize a usb nic when I plugged it in either. But it’s simple to lay and has a great interface. I’ll have to try some of these others you enumerate here. Thanks. My old P3 has a power supply with a max wattage output of 90W - and it’s using flash media instead of a hard disk… since it’s all solid express. I would gamble it’s actually using somewhere around 50W idle - and it’s got an average of <1% CPU utilization over several months. I tried a few of the installations reviewed over the past 4 years and can only designate on my own experiences. The one I use at home is IPCOP. I lay it for schools as well. Why because it simply does all I want it rock solidly. I have to put a bit of a defence here for this community based distro since I feel the article doesn’t really designate IPCOP’s features fully. Why is the simplistic purplish web interface worse than the orange one in smoothwall? Add-ons available allows you to do sooo much why not on par with the rest? Add-ons installation (and finding them) may not be the easiest CLI undergo for a noob but it ain’t rocket science either. Also. Endian is built on IPCOP. I think 1.4.8 upwards with most of the add-ons pre-installed. If you be a pretty interface fully functional IPCOP get Endian… I installed Shorewall on an old P166 but when it came to replacing the existing K6-II/333 with BBImage. I accidentally installed Smoothwall 2.0 instead of Shorewall so I kept with it and now running Smoothwall 3.0. I’ve also used Astaro on the K6-II/333 but found problems with ports which they intentionally made cryptic to encourage you to sign up for one of their classes. Then they offered an on-line seminar. OOps!. Windows needed so the best they could do was to email me a PDF presentation which still did not alter up my confusion. All the available config examples were geared towards Windows - brilliant for a Linux firewall. One good thing it was so tightly chrooted that using a Knoppix CD to view the hard drive said there wasn’t one. I was recently tasked with setting up a multiple-external-ip firewall and I have to say you’ve missed an excellent solution in eBox ( ). It comes with a fill of builtin features that are well integrated into the system as a whole. And for such a young communicate the interface seems surprisingly develop. It is based on Debian although I believe they are partnering with ubuntu for an easy eBox install in 8.04. I bet it could outscore all of those mentioned here given the chance. You might want to analyse it out. Thanks to your suggestions. I’ve got a big list of *nix-based firewalls to evaluate out and I’m looking forward to finishing the analyse. alter now the list of distros I’m looking at are as follows:

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! One of the best ways to re-purpose an old computer is to lay a Linux or FreeBSD firewall distribution and use it to run your personal home office or small office network is one way to keep “obsolete” technology from ever reaching a landfill. Help the environment by reusing an old computer as a firewall. It will defend your computer from internet worms deliver you measure money and most importantly - improve your internet undergo as a whole. By today’s standards the 500MHz computer that’s been running quietly in my closet for the past 3 years is beyond obsolete. More than ten generations of processors have come and gone since this computer rolled off the assembly line. Keep that wallet in your pocket don’t be a sucker and pay lots of money on a slow horrifically overpriced home networking product. There’s a good cerebrate why companies desire Linksys (a division of Cisco). Netgear and D-Link are worth multi-billions of dollars and continue to climb. Consumer spending on products with home communicate connections ordain reach over 17 billion dollars this year. I’d like to draw your attention to the size column. coat is NOT everything (that’s what she said) when it comes to firewall distributions. Wireless routers that may run your home or office network alter now pack a ton of functionality into a case as small as 2 megabytes. FreeBSD. Redhat and Debian are the building blocks for these home networking appliance distributions. is a BEAST - in a good way. It’s really hungry for a faster processor than I can impel at it. The enumerate of features really blow everything out of the water. It’s not just a router or firewall platform it’s desire someone asked themselves a question: “What is EVERYTHING a small office could EVER need in a networking server?” ClarkConnect provides three different robust VPN connectivity solutions using IPSec. PPTP. OpenVPN along with web proxy and web filtering. Additionally it provides an SSH server. Quality of Service (QoS) filtering for common P2P applications. Intrusion Detection and much much more including email server file print database and web serving. Not to mention a fairly comprehensive group drop suite which has schedule communicate tasks lists and provides a paid option for using Microsoft Outlook Connector to accept everything to go right into Microsoft Office Outlook. ClarkConnect is certainly a jack of all trades. Doing everything is great but how well does ClarkConnect do it? On the testbed installation was easy and had an informative installation progress check. The first measure running through the installer there was a problem with not having enough plough lay. After rebooting and trying again. I chose to change plough Druid a partitioning program - instead of the auto-partition mode. Everything worked just fine after that. I believe the problem lies with the testbed - 1GB of space is not alot to bring home the bacon with but fortunately they provide a manual partitioning method. It also prompts to create a GRUB (bootup) password so that if the device is physically compromised it would be more difficult for someone to maliciously (or accidentally) make changes to the system. Configuration was an overall negative experience. It got confusing not to mention frustrating. A small business owner who doesn’t know much about networking or computers would be best to believe hiring a professional to do the initial installation or paying for a yearly support assure from the vendor or for a single incident. An interesting feature ClarkConnect leverages very well during configuration stages is a graphical interface to the system. Every other firewall reviewed here either has a very sparse text-mode or console configuration. ClarkConnect wants to alter it easier. Just point and click to assemble the system which is nice - but it does not contain all of the features as the text-mode configuration tool which is also provided. The Web Graphical Interface is easy to use. Items are categorized in a logical fashion and it doesn’t take much hunting to find something you want if you don’t know where exactly it is in the menu. Style-wise. ClarkConnect is the only option in this roundup that provides a theme switcher - it is possible to use a very slick visually appealing interface or with a few clicks just change to another theme which is less eye-candy but probably more familiar to most people who have configured a wireless router in the past. Many companies like ClarkConnect release a “community” version as well as a paid version which includes more features and support options add-ons such as telecommunicate and virus scanning is available on a subscription basis and with so many features to start out with you might not be anything else to help to run a small business. to be the baseline for features usability and extensibility. The installation CD is simple but employs a non-linear configuration that some may have difficulty using the first measure around. A nice comprehend is including MemTest86 on the CD and including that as an option on the sign bootup. The program ordain systematically test your RAM and determine if there is a fault and as a computer gets older the likelihood of that happening becomes more of a reality. The auto-partitioner worked great unfortunately the installation procedure does have one glaringly obvious flaw. When the setup routine attempts to sight communicate cards it cycles through every hit communicate card that is supported. After the first card is detected it prompts you to set that as the “GREEN” interface also known as the LAN. Once it’s found the first NIC and assigned it to LAN you can’t change it to “RED” or as the WAN interface. Mildly annoying but thankfully the workaround is pretty simple just resuscitate and start it again. The web-based configuration tool is absolutely simple. Setting up SSH is just a checkbox away. VPN support is focused on a solution to provide IPCop-to-IPCop connectivity but an OpenVPN add-on exists. Speaking of addons there is a HUGE modding community devoted to adding features into IPCop. The webGUI call is in a word tacky. It’s a good thing that it can be easily modified. A few changes to colors and background images later it looks much much exceed. Functionality-wise. IPCop makes it easy to forward ports but does act a few ports to itself that you cannot utilize such as turn 222 for SSH. Printing is not an option. I haven’t been able to find any 3rd party modification that allows print serving. The graphs are simplistic yet very informative. is by far the smallest of the bunch. The entire thing is contained in a measly 8 MB CD image! monowall is first and foremost a routing platform. Nothing more nothing less. The distribution comes in two flavors either for embedded systems or for regular PCs. Installation the first time around may be difficult for a beginner since it refers to communicate cards by their FreeBSD driver name instead of something a human can easily interpret. Which is easier to understand: “fxp0″ or “Intel Pro 10/100+”? Why not provide both peices of information to the user? VPN is come up supported with both IPSec and PPTP options. SSH access can be enabled by a 3rd party add-on. Print serving is unsupported. The configuration page for monowall uses K. I. S. S. (Keep It Simple Stupid) to great effect. It’s brain-dead simple to set things up. However two things rest out as being somewhat awkward those being static DHCP and advanced settings. Otherwise it’s fantastic. Ever had P2P traffic slow down your internet surfing? analyse one single box in the GUI and instantly you have over 20 different protocols that are instantly filtered using QoS to alter your internet surfing undergo as pleasant as possible. Add-ons are not easy to incorporate and demand modification of the ISO image but monowall is not designed to be anything more than a router and firewall. Extra features like a wireless AP feature that can be used with the captive portal answer. change state on LAN interface and probably the smallest feature I could point out - the uptime is printed on the console when rebooting. Small things like that show an extremely polished software platform that delivers. is a hybrid of sorts that has multiple sources for it’s study components. It was originally derived from monowall but uses OpenBSD’s ported Packet separate a case management system to provide an integrated extensibility to the platform and Alternate Queuing (ALTQ) from FreeBSD. This Frankenstein is no droop when it comes to performance features and usability. Installation uses the same monowall device naming system which is clunky and also does not provide the entire label of the device. Once installed the console has several options one of those which is a schedule called “pfTop” if you’ve ever needed to be able to believe where most of your communicate bandwidth is being used from a console now you can very easily. The web GUI is absolutely fantastic. It’s got initial setup & merchandise shaping wizards a captive portal load balancer (nice!). OLSR (ad-hoc wireless AP mode). Wake on LAN wizard different selectable themes for the GUI. OpenVPN. IPSec and PPTP VPN are all included by default failover and packet capturing! Wizards for traffic shaping and sign setup - not anything new almost any router you can buy today has them but when you see them for the first measure included in a firewall distribution it’s great to see changes that make a product easier to use. No other firewall we’ve looked at has three different VPN options. installation is simplistic and the GREEN/RED interface descriptions are an easy idea to grasp. One of the best features is a Java SSH client that runs alter in the web interface - slick. Smoothwall’s VPN is designed to connect multiple Smoothwalls to each other but IPSec is supported fully and addons can be open for other VPN implementations. The web interface is easy to navigate. This is the only product to provide a Java SSH client that runs alter in the WebGUI - very nice. The real-time traffic graphs are a great addition. Add-ons for Smoothwall 3.0 are plentiful and usually easy to install if you can evaluate of it it probably exists my smoothwall is integrated into the web configuration tool and provides some basic integration into the smoothwall website. Free services like dynamic DNS are available along with paid features as come up. The IM proxy is the best I’ve seen. Once it’s enabled every incoming and outgoing IM conversation is logged. After opening up a few channels in IRC - in real-time - it’s possible to view any conversation going through the firewall. MSN. AIM and other protocols are supported as well. It’s a big-brother feature but if you want to observe who you children are talking to or for whatever cerebrate. I can see it being an invaluable resource to monitor what is going on in a network you control. It would almost be easier to keep bring in of conversations using the logging tool in Smoothwall instead of multiple instant messenger clients. “is very easy to install use and manage without losing its flexibility.” I had a completely different experience. Although Endian is only 106 MB and would easily fit within the 1GB limitation of our testbed installation failed at 96% - reporting that there was not enough space on the control. The installer for Endian has hard-coded values for the suplementary filesystems /var and change. There is no minimum system requirements listed on their website that I can find and I checked online for solutions to this problem. The best solution provided was to install Endian to another hard drive resize the partitions to fit on the smaller disk then write it back using an disk imaging software. That workaround does not constitute “easy to lay” by any stretch of the imagination. is a close match to every other distribution we’ve looked at so far with a few nice touches. Their website says that they have the following feature at first look seems pretty kickass: “Anonymisation Gateway: The Gibraltar Anonymisation Gateway makes your overall network traffic anonymous and it makes sure you can surf in the internet anonymously.” To activate the firewall you must acquire a license key (for free) from their website. Unfortunately that feature on Gibraltar’s site does not appear to be working properly. I’ve tried multiple times to request a key and it said one was on it’s way - but never arrived. About a day later I requested a key once again and was informed that a key already exists for my email address. Not good. alter before publishing this article I finally received a key via email and it appears that the authorise key process is not automated unfortunately. We’ll act a look at it next time around. The scoring system gives equal advance to the following categories: Setup. WebGui. Extensibility and Speed Testing. Each of the distributions passed the go test with flying colors with less than 5% margin between highest and lowest scores. It’s difficult to appoint arbitrary numbers to reach a score and I’ve attempted to provide a good metric for which someone can go by to determine which is best for them. arouse no query you hadn’t posted in a few days. Nice bind. I tried smoothwall before and found it to be very come up implemented. The only problem is that I didn’t undergo two nics in the system and there are no expansion slots. It wouldn’t recognize a usb nic when I plugged it in either. But it’s simple to lay and has a great interface. I’ll have to try some of these others you list here. Thanks. My old P3 has a power supply with a max wattage output of 90W - and it’s using flash media instead of a hard disk… since it’s all solid express. I would wager it’s actually using somewhere around 50W idle - and it’s got an add up of <1% CPU utilization over several months. I tried a few of the installations reviewed over the past 4 years and can only designate on my own experiences. The one I use at domiciliate is IPCOP. I install it for schools as well. Why because it simply does all I want it move back and forth solidly. I have to put a bit of a defence here for this community based distro since I feel the article doesn’t really designate IPCOP’s features fully. Why is the simplistic purplish web interface worse than the orange one in smoothwall? Add-ons available allows you to do sooo much why not on par with the rest? Add-ons installation (and finding them) may not be the easiest CLI experience for a noob but it ain’t rocket science either. Also. Endian is built on IPCOP. I evaluate 1.4.8 upwards with most of the add-ons pre-installed. If you be a pretty interface fully functional IPCOP get Endian… I installed Shorewall on an old P166 but when it came to replacing the existing K6-II/333 with BBImage. I accidentally installed Smoothwall 2.0 instead of Shorewall so I kept with it and now running Smoothwall 3.0. I’ve also used Astaro on the K6-II/333 but found problems with ports which they intentionally made cryptic to encourage you to sign up for one of their classes. Then they offered an on-line seminar. OOps!. Windows needed so the best they could do was to email me a PDF presentation which still did not clear up my confusion. All the available config examples were geared towards Windows - brilliant for a Linux firewall. One good thing it was so tightly chrooted that using a Knoppix CD to view the hard drive said there wasn’t one. I was recently tasked with setting up a multiple-external-ip firewall and I undergo to say you’ve missed an excellent solution in eBox ( ). It comes with a load of builtin features that are well integrated into the system as a whole. And for such a young project the interface seems surprisingly mature. It is based on Debian although I believe they are partnering with ubuntu for an easy eBox lay in 8.04. I bet it could outscore all of those mentioned here given the chance. You might want to analyse it out. Thanks to your suggestions. I’ve got a big list of *nix-based firewalls to test out and I’m looking send to finishing the review. Right now the list of distros I’m looking at are as follows:

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