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belongings shuttled alongside retaliatory …

As one who has run Smoothwalls and installed them everywhere for almost 5 years, I can testify it’s awesomely reliable. As for the nobishness on the forums, your wrong… Like a lot of the net, it’s more like club ambiance.

Face it, hav’in a Smoothie is like… well, hav’in a pint or two at the pub. It’s a club. The help’s free and so is the product. When was the last time you ever walked into a brood full of regulars and asked “eh.. who got the fastest car here?”. Ol’ Johnny winks at his buddy and says to you “what’s that hunk-a-crap you drive anyway?”

…like it or lump it, if you stick around the forums long enough, you’ll get some good ole humour and be modding your smoothwall just like the rest of us. Chill out mate, them Aussie and UK blokes are downright fun!

We are sorry you got miffed though.

*sigh*

They believe.

I have to agree that the setup is not so obvious as to be foolproof, and somewhat confusing, as you noted in describing the ppp config page. But it is in the docs ….somewhere…and the docs are…well like the setup…not so obvious. They are written as though you ought to read them through completely once, then refer to the pertinent sections as you install. And a pretty decent network skill level is always handy to have, as well as dealing with manually configuring network cards and their module parameters, if you’re using older ISA boards.

The price is right though an once it is up and running, as long as your hardware holds up you’ll have a trouble free firewall and router box. Ive had uptimes in excess of 150 days.

At my time of writing the article above, I had never used SmoothWall before, I knew nothing about PPPoE, and I’m not a network admin . My article is also about the installation and setup, not something that’s been running for 18 months.

Anyway, everything’s up and running perfectly as I mentioned in my first comment, and has been running well for the past 2 and a half months. I just had some learning and noobness to get over .

We also run really rubbish machines (Pentium 133) although we insist on intel cards…we also have a load of mods installed including custom scripts to switch dialups and its the most reliable setup I have ever worked on, I think your problem may be related to PEBKAC.

I once had problems like you mentioned with it not letting you go on the net, so I stuck another NIC in and that solved the problem. It was the onboard realtek 8139 giving a problem somehwere. What I dont understand though is that the replacement card had the same chipset :/

Faulty onboard card I guess

If you’re using “ADSL” via ethernet PPPoE then you’re not using ADSL, you’re using Ethernet PPPoE. So it’s rather obvious to “Disable” “ADSL”, then in the network selection system assign the correct network cards to the Red/Green interfaces as needed.

I’ve never had problems like what you explained, I have a feeling you didn’t read the FAQ’s before installing

-Regards
Colin “Karnaugh” “The Smoothwall Fanboy” Alston

Yay.