Smoothwall + VLANs
We currently have a fairly basic Smoothwall routing setup on our pair of appliances and need to make some changes for our new network setup. Specifically, at the moment, 0.0.0.0/0 is routed by our core...
View ArticleSmoothwall v Fortinet
This is a personal review on my experience in switching from Smoothwall to Fortinet in my school. Reason: For years I have been unhappy with the quality & timescale of Smoothwall Support. Most...
View ArticleSmoothwall Bottleneck Issue
We have a S8 smoothwall appliance and our download speeds seems to be getting bottlenecked. I am getting around 60Mbps download when going through the smoothwall appliance. When I bypass the smoothwall...
View ArticleOlder Version of Lightspeed Systems Windows User Agent - UserAgentx64.msi
Hi Guys, Im looking for an older version of the Lightspeed Systems Windows User Agent, that was used with onprem Rockets to identify the user and send the user information to the Rocket. I cannot seem...
View ArticleNetsweeper
I don't know if our netsweeper is just rubbish but a lot of obvious things are getting through it at the moment. The big one being virtual web browsers and sandboxed ones. Has anyone managed to block...
View ArticleAnyone head of this ISP supplier
Has anyone heard of or used a company called Communication Plus based in Rainford, Merseyside? I have a quote for a leased line - 1gb connection on a 10Gb bearer which is ridiculously cheap when...
View ArticleSchools Broadband - connection only opinions
Hi All I seem to be posting a lot regarding ISP/Firewall/Filtering etc at the moment...... so please forgive yet another one :D Does anyone use Schools Broadband just for their connection (no filtering...
View ArticleWe're on a blacklist and can't get off!
We are with SBB and the IP we go out through is on blocklists somewhere. If I try and send to hotmail.com, I get this bounce; ---Quote--- HE1EUR04FT057.mail.protection.outlook.com rejected your message...
View ArticleSmoothwall Issue/Support
Had a smoothwall S9+ installed over the summer and not had any major issues until a couple of weeks ago Randomly one day all users either wired or on the wifi couldn't get onto random sites or took...
View ArticleSmoothwall - double filtering results
Odd one, in testing with our new Smoothwall. Most seems OK, however a couple of oddities: A couple of clients, Chrome filters differently to Edge. Same proxy settings etc (well, it's transparent )....
View ArticleNeed help translating what T and P means now.
I don't know what P and T stands for now on our firewall. We don't have enough bandwidth for this to be Petabytes and Terabytes in 24hours. So what does P and T stand for under "Bytes" when I check...
View ArticleVOIP shenanigans :(
Hoping someone is an absolute expert in this, because I'm going greyer quicker than Gandalf. We have a leased line through a 3rd party. Line provided by Gamma. We have a Splicecom VOIP system provided...
View ArticleEnabling Spotify via Smoothwall
Good morning all, I'm trying to allow Spotify for staff in school through our Smoothwall. I've tried the guide at Configuring the Smoothwall Filter and Firewall to Allow Access to Spotify Knowledge...
View ArticleFortigate potential web filter and/or DNS filter issue heads up
Hi all, We (and others seemingly) experienced this today: https://www.reddit.com/r/fortinet/comments/17iz32j/fortiguard_webfilter_down/ It started at exactly 02:00 this morning - so could be time...
View ArticleSchools Broadband and playboy.com
Found some odd entries in our Netsweeper logs going through an "admin" proxy from an external IP. Attachment 70188...
View ArticleNetsweeper - iPad Monitoring
Hi all, Have a question to see how you guys are handling iPad monitoring with Netsweeper. Currently we have weekly reports set up and for AD joined PC's this shows who was logged on thanks to the...
View ArticleAnyone running a SIP trunk for personal use?
I've been running with SipGate for years but my chosen PBX (I've been using for 6 years) does not support it anymore on the free version and is pretty limited unless you get a license which for the...
View ArticleSmoothwall Weird IP range behaviour
God damn I've been going through the works with this one. I'll try to keep this short but with vital information. We use Smoothwall as our filtering. We also have LGFL as our ISP. We have a few IP...
View ArticleBYOD / iPad filtering with Sophos XG
Cross posting as I think this may be a more appropriate forum: Morning all, I am starting a new job in the next few months and my brain is already ticking over on a number of systems I haven't used...
View Articletlu.dl.delivery.mp.microsoft.com
Hi all, Netsweeper is flagging up various versions of this http://11.tlu.dl.delivery.mp.microsoft.com/filestreamingservice on a daily basis. Anyone else get this or know what it is? Thankyou.
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