anyone use m0n0wall or smoothwall?

[Journer]

i'm getting tired of this linksys router and thinking about moving on over to a software based firewall...i got a spare machine with like...256-512mb ram...p3 800mhz...couple gig HDD...should be more than enough to handle an assload of connections for torrenting, ftp connections, etc.

i just wanted to know peopels thoughts on overall network performance when using these solutions...how much of a jump in performance did you see and how well do the traffic shaping features work?

thanks

 

[InlineFive]

Personally I would go with Astaro. The home license is free and "allows up to 10 users", which is odd because it hasn't complained about that limit for me.

On Astaro QoS may be consider limited in the sense that it can't apply QoS on an application basis.

 

[nweaver]

running smoothwall for a small WISP, about 50 subs...works great, haven't had a single issue

 

[Journer]

Originally posted by: nweaver
running smoothwall for a small WISP, about 50 subs...works great, haven't had a single issue

2.0 or 3.0 (grizzly) ?

 

[Goosemaster]

run m0n0wall on my network (including ahotspot) and it works fine

The main issue I have with it is that it is very powerful, but yet very basic. It doesn't ahve routing protocols, and servers as a very simple layer3 device.

Astaro, as inline five mentioned, is a great choice. It offfers things on higher layers, such as email and virus scanning, and IPS.

BEt of all the home license with full updates is like $50 which is really hot since you get kapersky antivirus, and everythign is checked and removed before it hits your pc. The free version has no updates.

 

[Tommouse]

Smoothwall is what my roommates and I run for our router. Works well, QoS and all. We used to crash our linksys every day or two with our traffic/connection load. Smoothwall has been running strong for the part year with only a couple reboots (someone kicked the cables and the power went out). I recommend it :thumbsup:

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: Tommouse
Smoothwall is what my roommates and I run for our router. Works well, QoS and all. We used to crash our linksys every day or two with our traffic/connection load. Smoothwall has been running strong for the part year with only a couple reboots (someone kicked the cables and the power went out). I recommend it :thumbsup:

smoothwall is good.

 

[ITJunkie]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: Tommouse
Smoothwall is what my roommates and I run for our router. Works well, QoS and all. We used to crash our linksys every day or two with our traffic/connection load. Smoothwall has been running strong for the part year with only a couple reboots (someone kicked the cables and the power went out). I recommend it :thumbsup:

smoothwall is good.

seconded...or thirded...or whichever

 

[spyordie007]

Same here, I've been running smoothwall @ home for years (Currently v. 2).

Not super feature full, but been stable.

I've given some thought to trying IPCop out, but havent had the chance to play with it yet.

 

[Journer]

i decided on psSense...its great

 

[nweaver]

Originally posted by: spyordie007
Same here, I've been running smoothwall @ home for years (Currently v. 2).

Not super feature full, but been stable.

I've given some thought to trying IPCop out, but havent had the chance to play with it yet.

yeah, I was running a pure deb stable box for the router, but it was too hard for anyone but me to manage. I wish you could get the smoothwall web interface into iptables, and still run it on your own distro, so you could add stuff.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: nweaver

Originally posted by: spyordie007
Same here, I've been running smoothwall @ home for years (Currently v. 2).

Not super feature full, but been stable.

I've given some thought to trying IPCop out, but havent had the chance to play with it yet.

yeah, I was running a pure deb stable box for the router, but it was too hard for anyone but me to manage. I wish you could get the smoothwall web interface into iptables, and still run it on your own distro, so you could add stuff.

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