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Article: Security with E-Smith.(Linux)
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- Australian PC World
- Article date:
- November 1, 2003
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E-Smith SME Server is a Linux distribution designed to serve as a dedicated firewall/gateway server, allowing you to share an Internet connection over a LAN. The distribution is a heavily-modified version of Red Hat Linux, with most of the latter, including the GUI, removed, leaving only what is required to run a firewall/gateway in a small 380MB package. In this month's Linux Here's How column we'll look at installing and configuring E-Smith SME Server to act as a firewall and gateway for your network.
E-Smith SME Server can be downloaded free of charge from www.e-smith.org. At the time of writing, version 5.6 is the latest stable release and version 6 is in the ...