WING LOON

SmoothWall is always my all time favorite Open Source network firewall. SmoothWall Express 3.0 (with the codename Polar) the long-awaited version has been released on 22 Aug 2007. The codes are contributed from the SmoothWall community at large. This latest version is based on Linux 2.6 Kernel. SmoothWall has introduce a new online management system named (my.SmoothWall) where users can manage their installations, download manuals, sign up for email updates/patches and much more.

I have tried installing older version of SmoothWall into my old Intel Pentium 90MHz PC (my first PC). But, that PC is now lying around on the floor. Sad thing. I have a plan of setting up my other box (a Intel Pentium 3 750MHz PC) with SmoothWall Express 3.0 with some additional hardware like ADSL PCI card and Wireless PCI card to make it as an all-in-one box. I will start as soon as possible,
The cool thing I like in this new SmoothWall Express 3.0 are POP3 Email antivirus proxy, Inline Proxy support for Instant Messaging (MSN, ICQ, Yahoo!, AOL) & VoIP with logging capabilities, Universal Plug n Play Support (UPnP) and real-time traffic graphs, real-time bandwidth bars & per IP address traffic stats.

Source: The SmoothWall Open Source Project