[H-GEN] Request for help with smoothwall firewall

[Ronald Bradford]

Dear All,

This reponse as well as others have recommended other open source 
firewall products.  Could I guage any other recommendations at to what 
people are actually using.
I have also reviewed using Trustix but discarded as previous experience 
of somebody advising me had used Smoothwall.

At present I have installed and am trying to configure OpenVPN as a 
solution to my VPN issues.

Regards

Ronald :)

Quark AudioVisual - Hilton Travis wrote:

> Hi Ronald,
>
> I used to be on the SmoothWall Development Team a few years back.  
> SmoothWall is currently a product I'd not recommend anyone uses, 
> simply because of the current project leaders.  That said...
>
> Without their expensive add-ons to their expensive Corporate Server 
> product, you cannot easily achieve IPSEC VPN connection to a Windows 
> box.  Give up now before you waste too much more time.
>
> OpenVPN is likely a much better choice for you - m0n0wall (BSD-based) 
> also supports OpenVPN (in its beta versions).  OpenVPN is another way 
> to VPN whilst using 128-bit SSL encryption.  It is quite nice.
>
> I'd first dump SmoothWall, look at OpenVPN, or alternatively, look at 
> running an ISA box - but that's big biccies and wouldn't suit your 
> organization's budget, no doubt.
>
> m0n0wall - http://m0n0.ch/wall - is rather nice.
>
> Regards,
> Hilton Travis
>
> Ronald Bradford wrote:
>
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>> Hi All,
>>
>> We are seeking some assistance in the completion of the configuration 
>> of a Smoothwall Firewall at our organisation.
>> While I'm a literate IT Linux user in general system administration, 
>> moving from theory of firewalls to practice has been a new experience 
>> which I'm now completely comfortable with for general installation, 
>> DMZ etc.
>>
>> However two things remain, VPN & VNC access.   I've been unsuccessful 
>> in doing testing of VPN access from a Windoze machine (which all 
>> staff use).
>> While there is a certain amount of accessible documentation, it's a 
>> lot to wade through and consensus is VPN is complicated, and with 
>> Microsoft not supporting IPsec very difficult hence my request for 
>> anybody that could give some valuable assistance first hand.
>>
>> There is unfortunately no money available in response to help. We are 
>> a not for profit organisation and are very stretched are suffering 
>> greatly like most other similiar organisations this calendar year due 
>> to world events.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Ronald Bradford
>>
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