Smoothwall Express 3.1, a Linux-based Firewall Released

Smoothwall Express is Linux  based firewall and linux is the ideal choice for security systems; it is well proven, secure, highly configurable and freely available as open source code.The latest version  RC5 corrects a number of issues found in RC4 .

Key new features & improvements in version 3.1 RC5

-The build system is vastly improved; it is now re-entrant (a build will continue where it left off when an error is encountered and fixed), and compiles will use all CPU cores present).

-SMP is standard for 32- and 64-bit installations. Smoothwall Express will now use those extra CPU cores.

-Installation on KVM, Xen, VMWare and Hyper-V virtual systems is supported. KVM works well; support for the other three was recently added and hasn't been tested very well.

-The kernel now provides /dev entries for all devices it knows about; udev handles the rest.

-The bandwidthbars presentation was reworked and improved.

-The interfaces page has a new subsection for the RED NIC that allows the admin to ignore the MTU setting the ISP sends in their DHCP packets and allows the admin to override the ISP's DNS servers.

-The browser's preferred language can now control the language presented in the user interface.

-There is a new Plug-n-Play backup system: hot-plug a configured drive and the system will be automatically archived onto it in both a 'var' archive (all the 'variable' data on the system) that is useful when upgrading, and a 'total' archive that is useful when a system fails or is moved to new hardware. USB and eSATA drives are known to work.

-The Smoothinfo mod has been integrated into the user interface.

-The QoS feature has been thoroughly reworked and provides much smoother traffic shaping.

-Marco's URL Filter mod from Express 3.0 has been fully integrated into 3.1.

-The DHCP Lease Table mod has been fully integrated into 3.1.

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