Smoothwall 3

[Howard]

Is ace Loving the bandwidth monitoring and real time graphs, increased monitoring abilities and new slicker / faster interface... Might be old news now but I think it's great Who else is running it ?

[alsenior]

i'll be running it when i get a power supply and cpu for a box

[kidzer]

grr, I wish I had a small farm of SFF machines so I could install smoothwall etc, and run various things to experiment.

I have a machine thats not going to be used for another few weeks though, I might stick it on there and have a play, not used it before - should be fun

I could just build a fast SFF machine and run a few VMs on it, no money though

[dave87]

Howard, how have you got your network structured? Modem-Smoothwall-WiFi/Wired Network?

[mycarsavw]

Had my Smoothie (that's what the nerds over on the forums call them) up for a few months now and I'm loving it.

Lots of mods on it and lots of dissatisfied staff members who can't access "www.whatcaniwastemytimeontoday.com".

Love it!

[Howard]

Howard, how have you got your network structured? Modem-Smoothwall-WiFi/Wired Network?

Cable Modem > Smoothwall > Switch

Wifi access point > switch

all other computers > switch

[Phil_P]

grr, I wish I had a small farm of SFF machines so I could install smoothwall etc, and run various things to experiment.

I have a machine thats not going to be used for another few weeks though, I might stick it on there and have a play, not used it before - should be fun

I could just build a fast SFF machine and run a few VMs on it, no money though

With the system you have listed in your specs, you should have no trouble running a couple light VMs on VMware. You have plenty of RAM and a fast dual core that should easily cope (assuming you're not using Vista or other memory hogging software).

[kidzer]

I am using Vista

I'm sure I could run them, but I'd like to have a seperate machine for them 'cause I'm picky like that.

I'll give 'em a go on this machine after Uni is finished for christmas though, it can be a project alongside hooking my old freeview box up to the machine via a serial port and seeing what it says!

[Phil_P]

I am using Vista

I'm sure I could run them, but I'd like to have a seperate machine for them 'cause I'm picky like that.

I'll give 'em a go on this machine after Uni is finished for christmas though, it can be a project alongside hooking my old freeview box up to the machine via a serial port and seeing what it says!

Yeah, I guess after Vista has gobbled up 1.5GB of ram you don't have a lot left to do much. Compared to my main Linux desktop that loads a full GUI is less than 100MB, it's laughable! I quite regularly run a 256MB WinXP virtual machine in VMware on my Linux box with only an Athlon XP/512MB ram for testing stuff and it runs absolutely fine

[TheAnimus]

everyone knows its all about the m0n0wall

[kidzer]

Yeah, I guess after Vista has gobbled up 1.5GB of ram you don't have a lot left to do much. Compared to my main Linux desktop that loads a full GUI is less than 100MB, it's laughable! I quite regularly run a 256MB WinXP virtual machine in VMware on my Linux box with only an Athlon XP/512MB ram for testing stuff and it runs absolutely fine

In Vista's defence, mine is using only ()1.05GiB justnow, and it can release that to other apps if necessary as i understand

I'll try running a Vitual OS on this and on Ubuntu with XFCE installed and see which one is quicker!

[Lourdes]

I'm liking it too, excellent OS. There are lots of alternatives but I'm too lazy to experiment tbh and sw3 is all good.

[kidzer]

Quickie for y'all;

I've gone with installing SW3 on a VM on this machine, and its giving me an error during the intial setup when it formats the disc etc - "Error calculating module dependencies"

I've tried it using Microsoft Virtual PC and Virtualbox and both give the error, so I dont think its an issue with the software.

I shall try re-downloading the .ISO and see if its a faulty download.

[Splash]

Installs fine on VMWare server for me Kidzer, so I'd be tempted to think it may be a duffed iso.

On another note I just found a use for this Shuttle...

[kidzer]

I shall try a new ISO ones Heroes is done then

[Phil_P]

On their download website they publish the MD5 checksum for the ISO images so you can verify the image before burning to CD.

You can grab a copy of md5sum.exe for Windows here to verify the download:

etree.org | md5sum.exe