(Hangs head low)
It must have been me. Yep, I really did it this time. Remember yesterday how I told you guys about this really cool firewall called SmoothWall? Well, I guess I'll have to step and take the blame. You see, it seems that after posting a new entry on my blog about their firewall they got Slashdotted. Deductive reasoning can only lead me to assume that I, and I alone am to blame. If only I had thought about what I was typing before I typed it.

Anyhow, I finally got the firewall up and running. It's pretty sweet and doesn't require any very heavy hardware (as most don't anyway). I have it up and running on a PII 333mhz machine with 64mb of Ram. It took a while to try to get it configured because I was trying to use 3 NIC cards. After failing miserably on that, I decided to go with 2 as I had done in my last firewall. I got to say it's pretty sweet......I mean it's been successfully up now for over 3 minutes......If that doesn't say something well I don't know what will.

I can now take down my dying AMD K6 450 and retire it. I had been running Redhat 9.0 on it and it served it's purpose well. I just wanted to go to a less bloated firewall. It's sad to say goodbye, though I feel it's time. So long old buddy, so long.


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