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I'm looking for a top of the line free fire wall... kind of an oximoron I know but I know they are out there. Is there any in particular that is well known and has good results. If so please leave the name or where I can find it. Thanks.

kerio is really good !

Seems like this question comes up every few months. Anywho, I'm using Sygate Personal Firewall and I like it...

i got a 233 running smooth wall.. works great! you get traffic graphs and a bunch of other stuff. if you know sombody else that runs a smooth wall you can tie them togeter with a VPN.

I concur w/ Tunis on Sygate

How does smoothwall work exactly? I'm downloading it now, and I'm curious what i need to do first? Thanx guys.. eGo

a whole computer... with 2 nics in it.. a small HD (i have a 8 gig in mine.. but thats cause i have cash name server turned on.. so my SW acts like my internet cash) about 64 megs of ram.

It should run good and fine on a 75 mhz if its for a small network. we have one we build outta 733.. but during lans this thing can handel 64+ people. you can also set up SW to handel DHCP if you have multiple computers. what else... it has traffic graphs. umm... it can do pppoe. and its simple to set up.. im a linux noob and i did it in like 15 minuets. just make the CD and have it boot from it.. the rest kinda explains itselfe. I think you can alos do it with just one network card... but i use mine as my gateway so it has to have 2. one goes straign to the DSL modem.. the other to my swithc where all my other computers are hooked up to.

I like it.. i have had it up for like 2 months with out a problem yet. and its easy to keep up to date too.

Smoothwall is good, but I like IPCOP (http://ipcop.org/) better. It is a development fork of Smoothwall so it has the same features and a bit more (transparent caching web proxy is a fav of mine). Plus it gets updated a lot more often than Smoothwall. Some other nice features they both support are IDS and VPN.

For this kind of stuff, low end P1's and/or 486's work fine for the home network.

I'm currently looking at mini-itx boards so I can move my current firewall to something with a smaller footprint.

I also have IPCop here running on a P133, very nice firewall/router Linux distro and very easy to set up things.
Kerio is a nice free personal firewall for windows, I keep it on my Win2k machine to prevent malware from calling home (while IPCop stops the bad packets from the outside).

donk
I know what yer mean, my P133 is sitting in a fulltower

Originally posted by DocSilly
donk
I know what yer mean, my P133 is sitting in a fulltower

I just ordered the VIA EPIA CL10000 today.. (the 1Ghz/dual nic mini-itx board) .. once I get it up and running I'll let you know how it works out ..