• TimeSquirrel
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    281 month ago

    Smoothwall. I used to run it a lot back in the early 2000s for personal use and even helped set up a couple small businesses with it but I don’t hear of anyone else using it these days, people seem to love openwrt and pfsense more.

    It was great for just taking any old x86 machine and making a powerful, fully featured firewall/router out of it, including a VPN server, all through a web interface. Nowadays that’s boring shit but in 2002 it was pretty cool.

    • Quazatron
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      71 month ago

      Good old Smoothie. Served me well back then. I think it went commercial at some point.

    • @[email protected]
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      41 month ago

      We had this as the firewall in our school! I remember bypassing it in so many ways with Google DNS and whatnot.