Questions tagged [smoothwall]
Smoothwall is a UTM and web filter vendor which grew from, and still produces a popular open-source firewall.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ....
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Accessing web server internally via external address (via domain name) [closed]
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....
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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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