m0n0 wall
Posted by Michael Dale on Mon, 27 Dec 2004 7:11 PMReminder to self. Check out m0n0 wall (http://m0n0.ch/wall/), like SmoothWall but with more features. Might be good. Has had some development lately.
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.
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)
Josh didn't have a pleasurable eperience with Smoothwall either http://www.joahua.com/blog/2004/10/05/routed-routers-and-css#more-81
All of your M0n0wall install problems are solved.
http://chrisbuechler.com/index.php?id=17
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?