RE: FN-FORUM: Firewall's ... again

date posted 25th June 2003 14:48

On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, David Nye wrote:

> I am in the process of setting up a smoothwall here so that I can talk a
> client through it (similar set up to yours except they already have an
> NT4 server).
>
> One question so far - I have not yet found documentation on what I need
> to configure. For example, this client probably only wants web browsing
> and email - everything else can be blocked. Is this what smoothwall does
> by default?

The last time I looked at Smoothwall (and IPcop for that matter), neither
allowed you to define outbound policies from the web UI. Both are intended
for typical SoHo environments where one might allow one or two services
(e.g. SMTP and HTTP) in, but everything out.

Of course, the underlying Linux IP filtering stuff can do this, but then
you'd largely be missing the point of using Smoothwall/IPcop in the first
place. ;-)

Unless someone with more up-to-date info corrects me, you'll need to be
looking at something like SecurePoint or Astaro if outbound policies are a
showstopper for you and your client.

> David Nye

Best Regards,
alex.
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