Video: How to set up a Smoothwall firewall
By James Morris,
We take you through how to setup your own low-cost firewall system using nothing more than a low spec PC and free software.
There’s no doubt that going to a dedicated company to provide you with industrial strength appliances is the best way to get rock solid security for your company. However, if you’ve got a bit of technical nouse, and a little time, it’s possible to get a very high level protection using an old PC and some free, open source, software.
In these cash strapped tiems, this could be the right solution, albeit temporary, for some business, especially those who might otherwise eschew hardware solutions.
We walk you through a typical set up of Smoothwall and we also examine the advanced settings to provide even more security for your network, and to speed surfing up by enabling the caching option.
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