Feb 15, 2018 This video tutorial is also helpful for installing Smoothwall Express on physical computer or bare-metal server. Steps: 1- Download Smoothwall Express 3.1 SP2 ISO 2- Create Virtual Machine on VMware Workstation/Player 3- Start Installation 4- Initial Configuration and Enable SSH Remote Access to Smoothwall Express 5- Download and Install VMware. Users can download the SP1 as an ISO image. The first Service Pack (SP) release of Smoothwall Express 3.1, an open source best-of-breed Internet firewall and router operating system designed to.
Express 3.1 is the current stable release of the open source GPL network firewall.
Like Express 3.0, two architectures are available; one for Intel® i586 and one for 64bit processors.
In addition, three release types are available:
1. Standard - This is the normal release type for users.
2. Developer - This is a release targeted at people who want to work on Smoothwall Express.
3. Offroad - A cut down version for people who want to ensure their system's hardware is compatible with Smoothwall Express.
Please read the Release Announcement before downloading.
We welcome all feedback. Please view the forums for information on how you can report issues, post suggestions, etc.
The OffRoad ISOs are approcximately 32MB in size, all other ISO files are approcximately 220 MB in size.
All ISOs include an Installation guide, whist the Admin guides for 3.1 are currently in progress and will be released soon.
Standard edition:
Smoothwall Express 3.1 (i586)
MD5 : d8546bd1430480361eaf0261d7e70283
SHA1 : 21d6bb760c5783ce07fef6914cd6bea04ca35764
Smoothwall Express 3.1 (64bit)
MD5 : cfaf7f11901a164cd00c07518c7311ba
SHA1 : 8c172724f1b977692929a1ab8d95aeef04604a6b
Developer edition:
Smoothwall Express 3.1 (i586)
MD5 : 4de69bab8a41edf8800ec0398a5c96fd
SHA1 : 8927310b46a2a4727d326b6b4956d5b5f7271c50
Smoothwall Express 3.1 (64bit)
MD5 : e38647e4f5a3329f5e6ab084bfbee458
SHA1 : b72cbc28503d4b209ed15d9d071a91df7b344d85
Offroad edition:
Smoothwall Express 3.1 (i586)
MD5 : f8072557e2f1c2337fa183124c3dc893
SHA1 : 93d8f30e1d9a29ce446d685af41ef8767282270e
Smoothwall Express 3.1 (64bit)
MD5 : 925c814511591682646daebac7f0ed1d
SHA1 : 80bfff8790c03031cb3b32a6e860628949f132dc
A small Linux distribution designed to act as a secure, easy-to-configure firewall/gateway
What's new in SmoothWall Express 3.1 SP4:
- Package version updates:
- at: 3.1.20
- c_icap: 0.5.2
- c_icap_modules: 0.4.5
SmoothWall Express is a freely distributed and open source distribution of Linux founded by Lawrence Manning, Richard Morrell, Jon Fautley and Tom Ellis in summer 2000. It has been designed from the ground up to be used as a powerful and secure firewall or router.
Designed for ease of use, as well as to be simple to install by home users with no knowledge of Linux technologies, the distribution can be configured via a web-based user interface using any modern web browser.
Availability, boot options and supported platforms
The project is available for download as two CD-size ISO images that can be used to install the operating system on a local disk drive. The ISOs can be burned onto blank CDs or written to USB thumb drives. Both 32-bit and 64-bit hardware platforms are supported at this time.
The boot menu allows users to install the SmoothWall Express firewall with default settings or in advanced mode. In addition, it lets you to convert the ISO image to bootable flash, run the OS in single-user mode, as well as to explore the hardware and system.
The installation
The entire installation process takes place in the Linux console (text-mode). If you choose the standard installation method, you will only have to partition the hard disk drive in order to install the operating system.
Keep in mind that this is a server system and it has no graphical environment. Therefore, in order to enter the configuration interface, users must access the http://smoothwall:81 or http://smoothwall:441 using a web browser on another machine. The default username is 'dial' and users should set a password for it from the get-go.
Bottom line
All in all, SmoothWall Express is a great little distribution capable of transforming any low-end computer into a hardened Internet firewall. It is easily installable and configurable by anyone, without prior knowledge of Linux technologies.
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