Really awesome product right there. Dint get to try it b4 Smoothwall but they do pretty much the same thing. Nxt time Im deploying a similar network ill try it, or maybe when I free up one of my machines :)
Kibui Kenneth Maina,
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On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Odhiambo Washington
<odhiambo@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 20:57, Kibui Maina
<mainakibui@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, all
Thanks for the replies, I installed
Smoothwall a free firewall software on an old desktop, this works like magic, it allows me to block sites that I do not want people to see, ports I dont want people to use, view incoming and outgoing traffic via its web interface and most of all it acts as my DNS server so when one ISP fails I just change the cable for incoming traffic from one ISP to the other at my incoming traffic network port and everything continues as normal.
With PfSense, you could have two network interfaces - one for Zuku and the other for Safaricom - and it will do all these for you automagically! You need automatic failover. It does it!
Did you try it before settling for Smoothwall?
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