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m0n0 wall

author: Michael Dale ·

Reminder to self. Check out m0n0 wall (http://m0n0.ch/wall/), like SmoothWall but with more features. Might be good. Has had some development lately.

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· Matthew guest
What about hardware support? I've gave Smoothwall a try, and had the pleasureable experience of finding out it didn't support my network cards from the Smoothwall website. Monowall seems promising as it is a Freebsd based distro unlike Smoothwall.
In your opinion Dale does freebsd have good hardware support, as you're very experienced with it. Should I bother trying out Monowall with my two Realtek network cards, on my Pentium II x86 platform?
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· Michael Dale user
Realtek network cards are like the most supported brand by any operating system I've seen.

My smoothwall box has:
A RealTEk RTL-8029 and a Digital 21x4x Tulip (100mbit)

While my FreeBSD box has:
Another RealTEk RTL-8029 and a RealTek 8139 10/100BaseTX

You shouldn't have had problems with drivers on smoothwall and you shouldn't have problems with m0n0wall.

Again every x86 OS I've run supports Realtek stuff.
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· Josh Street user
Yeah, I tried to use that for a bit, but there was something not-great about the installer... from memory, it wouldn't install to HDD or something *shrug* There's a post about it somewhere in the graveyard over at my website... Google searches it okay (site:www.joahua.com/mid04/ m0n0wall would work well as a query, maybe)
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· Matthew guest
Josh didn't have a pleasurable eperience with Smoothwall either http://www.joahua.com/blog/2004/10/05/routed-routers-and-css#more-81
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· Anonymous guest
All of your M0n0wall install problems are solved.

http://chrisbuechler.com/index.php?id=17
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