stuff on firewall

open source in the workplace

Monday, 6 February 2006 9:26 pm by noel
posted in firewall, software, stuff, support

i recently got a comment from ace about a post on outlook express that i feel deserve a longer reply. here’s his comment:
why would a security paranoid system admin use outlook ?????
use thunderbird it is better than using that outlook
support opensource software!
for starters, i do support open software. i use it and recommend it in [...]

probing my firewall

Tuesday, 31 January 2006 10:58 am by noel
posted in firewall

last night i noticed that there’s a little more activity on my firewall. i took a look at the logs and i noticed someone was doing a portscan on me — first was a distributed portscan next was a decoy portscan. i deliberately erased the reported ip address in the screen shot below because it [...]

smoothwall case badges

Wednesday, 18 January 2006 5:50 pm by noel
posted in firewall, stuff

i got a pleasant surprise yesterday from the mail. smoothwall case badges! cool! thanks ryback!

i’ve been using smoothwall express for a linux-based firewall since september of 2004 and its been pretty solid. some people will say there are better firewalls out there that you can get for free and i may agree but one great [...]