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Title: How Secure is SME's Firewall ?
Post by: colwyn on December 05, 2004, 11:17:09 PM

How secure is SME's firewall feature ??  Currently my SME server is behind another firewall box running Smoothwall. SME and Smoothwall both seem to use IPtables.. Am I just duplicating efforts by having the other Smoothwall box ? Besides the obvious "its better to have a seperate firewall" answer, I would like to have less boxes running......':roll:'
Rolling Eyes

P.S I work in this industry supporting NT servers and have always run them at the house too. Since finding SME Server I dumped my NT server... SME Rocks..Told my friends about it too !!! This OS could take a bite out of M$...

Title: How Secure is SME's Firewall ?
Post by: guest22 on December 05, 2004, 11:28:01 PM

Practice proves that the SME Server is safe enough to use as a server-gateway for many years.

Title: How Secure is SME's Firewall ?
Post by: maier on December 21, 2004, 05:57:44 AM

i had the smoothwall, and mailserver on a Xp machine (just the setup at the time), but after switching to SME, i dont find the smoothwall necessairy any more.. (even though dob. protection, and NAT, allways is more secure)

Title: How Secure is SME's Firewall ?
Post by: RavenIV on December 24, 2004, 01:21:45 AM

every firewall is as secure as the admin.
if you do not open any ports, the SME firewall will fit all requirements.

cheers