Smoothwall GPL 2.0 beta 2

[Ragnor]

Anyone running Smoothwall GPL 2.0 beta 2..?
www.smoothwall.org

Better, worse or no difference compared to the last stable release 0.9.9.9 ?

I'm downloading it now anyway but of course it's taking freaking ages on dial up...

Dial up.. what's the point of using smoothwall then?
... grr stupid sister always wh0ring the internet

Can wait till this semesters over, when i've got a nice job, flat and ADSL..

Multiplayer games with a low ping, fast leeching.. mmm till then you ba$tard$ I hate you all...

[whetu]

doesnt look like anything fabulous over metro

I'm still using 0.9.9 p18 for my main smoothwall box

[Ragnor]

ah well

lab rat I am... around the survivors, a perimiter create

[Gremlin]

Runs fine, they've fixed traphic graphs and pretty much all the other issues with beta afaik. I'm running cable though so can't comment on whether USB ADSL Modems has been completely fixed in this version or not.

[Mashed_Penguin]

What about pci adsl modems, last time I tried I was going to have to manualy add support (which is beyond me).

[Gremlin]

See http://www.dickmorrell.com/diary/archives/000073.html
None yet, but may be added later...

[Mashed_Penguin]

Yay looks promising, mabey in 6 months or so :D

[Gremlin]

You could try Mandrake-MNF, its available in Cooker so you can easily install it over FTP in about 30-40 minutes :) I was using that briefly until Smoothie GPL 2b2 came out and liked it a lot

[FRiO]

Does this version let you mount things properly? I couldn't stand 0.9.9SE, and it's flaming not-working-NFS settings, so I switched to a home-made Slackware box :D
The main problem I had with it is that it is so limited - as a firewall, it's perfect, secure, brilliant, but the fact that I couldn't add some programs in, it had no text editors etc just annoyed me too much.

BTW, does the DHCP server run properly in this one? In 0.9.9SE it tried to DHCP over the dialup rather than the local network, and no amount of reinstalling/checking settings would fix it (not to mention the lack of a text editor drove me insane).

[Gremlin]

I think you'll find Smoothie will never out of the box support NFS, the devs are totally against anything like that running on the firewall (to a certain point I agree as well). Id sugest you checkout something like Clark Connect instead http://www.clarkconnect.org/

DHCP seems to be working fine.

Vi is installed as a text editor on Smoothies btw

[whetu]

The main problem I had with it is that it is so limited - as a firewall, it's perfect, secure, brilliant, but the fact that I couldn't add some programs in, it had no text editors etc just annoyed me too much.
a firewall has one purpose and one purpose only: to be a firewall. not a games/files/porn server, not a seti box, only a firewall and nothing else. This is one of the underlying rules that the smoothwall devs live by.
BTW, does the DHCP server run properly in this one? In 0.9.9SE it tried to DHCP over the dialup rather than the local network, and no amount of reinstalling/checking settings would fix it (not to mention the lack of a text editor drove me insane). This indicates to me that you set it up wrong, the dhcp server ran absolutely fine for me when I needed it while my normal server was down