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Smoothwall is a UTM and web filter vendor which grew from, and still produces a popular open-source firewall.

Smoothwall is a UTM and web filter vendor (www.smoothwall.net) which grew from, and still produces a popular open-source firewall (www.smoothwall.org)

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Where to put OpenVPN server - DMZ or LAN?

We have a Smoothwall firewall with both a "green" network (LAN) and an "orange" network (DMZ), and we would like to use OpenVPN access server as our VPN server. The question is: Should the VPN server go in the LAN or the DMZ? And, if in the DMZ,…
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Limiting internet traffic per user/IP based on volume

I have a shared internet connection on my network which I currently manage using Smoothwall Express. I want to be able to allocate each of my housemates a certain amount of bandwidth per month. My ISP charges me per MB, so I want to extend that…
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iptables rules to allow L2TP/IPSEC VPN behind firewall

I asked about this on the Smoothwall Express forums but they are understandably reluctant to provide to much help. After all, they really want to sell the commercial version. I need to provide an L2TP/IPSEC VPN for remote support of some new…
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Smoothwall Express interface issues

I have a SmoothWall Express box that is currently configured with a Green and Purple interface. Both interfaces are in the same /24 subnet (which seems odd to me). The green interface (address of .254) has a DHCP server that is pushing addresses…
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Allow non-standard ports through Smoothwall filter

We have a Smoothwall appliance here which is used for web filtering on our school network. We also have Ubiquiti Unifi access points with an offsite controller. In order to manage the controller, we need to be able to log in to it at…
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Smoothwall web proxy VM blocks CSS files from CDNs

We have a Smoothwall web proxy set up as a virtual machine for internet browsing. When a site hosts CSS files on a CDN (probably any cross-domain request actually) the CSS isn't applied, indicating that Smoothwall is filtering it out. I am not…
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Making interface settings stick on SmoothWall

I have a SmoothWall Express 3.0 with a NIC on which I need to force full duplex because for some reason it and our ISP's equipment cannot auto negotiate. I do this by ethtool, but whenever I reboot the SmoothWall the settings are lost. Where can I…
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VNC goes to wrong IP (CentOS and Smoothwall VM)

OK, this one is so very weird. I have CentOS 6.3 (host) running Virtual Machine Manager and several virtual machines. The host as the public IP xxx.xxx.xxx.209. One of the virtual machines is running Smoothwall routing software and has the public…
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Is SmoothWall a good firewall alternative?

I found this linux distribution, called SmoothWall. I read its documentation and it looks pretty for me. The only problem is, that I'm not a big linux professional and I have also not a lot of experience but I want to know your thoughts about this…
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Smoothwall: How to stop live network traffic displayed in terminal?

For our network we are working on building a new firewall box and we just installed Smoothwall on it to test it out. When I start up the box, before the login prompt even appears, all of the live IP traffic is appearing in the terminal…
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Connecting strongswan to badly configured openswan

I'm a bit stuck with configuring strongswan to connect to my office network as it refuses to verifiy the right side in any way, i was wondering if anyone knows of a way to just tell strongswan to ignore the server certificate and finish connecting?…
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Smoothwall firewall seems to be preventing "large" uploads

One of our customers has a Smoothwall firewall at the edge of their network. External users should be able to use a mobile app to upload images. The images are sent as base64 encoded strings in a JSON packet. However, the Smoothwall firewall seems…
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Port Forwarding From Second Router

I have the following setup at work, of which I'm impromptu in charge of: Internet(Modem) <-> Smoothwall (firewall/dhcp/nat) <-> Servers/PCs I need to be able to add a second broadband line in, preferable like this: Internet_1(Modem) <-> Smoothwall…
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Accessing web server internally via external address (via domain name)

I have a smoothwall set up in my home network along with a little web server (seperate machines). A domain name is set up for the external address of the network. Port 80 is forwarded to the server. Accessing the web server externally (if anyone…
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how to block Ultra surf on checkpoint or smoothwall firewall

i'm trying to block this since i've already blocked port80 and 8080 in my firewall, still the user are able to access the web
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