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@scottalanmiller This has been rumored for the last year or 2 as Manzana (you see what I did there?), has been hiring engineers from the car industry for a special, top secret project. I think Apple was about to abandon the project at one point.

@stacksofplates Sorry about that. Wasn't thinking about it.

@scottalanmiller said in Getting started with SmoothWall:

If you want to build your own and save $65 over Uniquiti use VyOS, not SmoothWall.

Definitely looking at the free route as I am more of a DIYer with what I have. Definitely looking at the VyOS. Just wasn't considering going BSD and trying to keep everything Linux. I understand that both are UNIX-derived, but just don't know how similar/different they are between the two.

@Danp My dad got me started on watching Hak5 and they showed how to create a VPN and setup DDNS with a firewall that is what appears to be Linux based. However, from what I have seen, Hak5 never comes out and directly say what firewall they are using. To me, it appeared to be Linux-based, therefore I deduced that it was possibly SmoothWall. However, I could be wrong and they could be using pfSense.

@JaredBusch said in Getting started with SmoothWall:

I've not used Smoothwall for years. It was a decent product, but pfSense worked better for me at the time, so I went with that and never touched Smoothwall again.

I'm trying to stick with Linux as much as possible. I'm sure pfSense is a great product, but I'm trying to learn Linux and figured surrounding myself with Linux will help me learn it in many different aspects. I have other plans for my home network and Linux.

@dafyre said in Getting started with SmoothWall:

If I remember right, you have to set up the Firewall to handle NAT and all of that and then setup an allow rule.

What version of Smoothwall are you on?

Know of any good resources to setup NAT and an allow rule?

SmoothWall Express 3.1. They haven't released a new version in a couple of years.

I am wanting to get started with SmoothWall Express and a dedicated computer with dual NICs, one onboard and one addon card. SmoothWall is installed and I have my red and green setup, but I still cannot access the Internet. I also have a few objectives with this firewall.

Besides this being a better firewall than your usual SOHO routers, I am wanting DDNS with DuckDNS and OpenVPN on this firewall so that I can be connected to my home and its resources when I am out of the house. I have Sprint with unlimited data plan so I'm not worried about data charges.

My question, does anybody have any good resources on how to start off with SmoothWall? I've already looked at YouTube and the SmoothWall forums and only see the usual "Pff, look at this newb" comments.

@scottalanmiller Thanks. The hardest part is staying committed to it.

Level 6 en espanol.

Nice, concise lessons.

Had a spare laptop laying around. Installing CentOS now. Also planning on installing NextCloud here soon as well. Creating a repository/shared calendar for the family with this machine.

@RojoLoco said in DuoLingo Challenge:

climbing quickly

Eres un inútil

@scottalanmiller Don't really need to know how to write it. Just speak it.

Next language? Hindi. Just so that I can actually understand the support groups over in India.

@scottalanmiller I like animals. Love some pig right here.

I think we fit in that SMB space as far as an IT department. We currently have less than 500 employees, but have about 120 users in our AD. Of those 120 users, 6 of us are in the IT department. 2 of these guys wear hats that encompass other departments as well. Typically, I spend half of my time doing user support and the other half is doing server-side support. Server administration for me might not be interacting the servers directly, but managing projects that would eventually impact the servers at some time in the future.

I'm seeing it as a good entry level device to finally learn Linux Server administration at an affordable device. Granted the hardware isn't something that you're normally going to normally see in an enterprise environment, it would give me nearly identical experience managing a linux server in an enterprise environment.