Express Feature List

Hardware support:

• Any Pentium class CPU and above – with a recommended minimum of 128MB RAM
• 64bit build for Core 2 systems

Firewalling:

• Supports LAN, DMZ, and Wireless networks, plus Extrnal.
• External connectivity via: Static Ethernet, DHCP Ethernet, PPPoE, PPPoA using various USB and PCI DSL modems.
• Portforwards, DMZ pin-holes
• Outbound filtering
• Timed access
• Simple to use Quality-of-Service (QoS)
• Traffic stats, including per interface and per IP totals for weeks and months
• IDS via automatically updated Snort rules
• UPnP support
• List of bad IP addresses to block

Proxies:

• Web proxy for accelerated browsing
• POP3 email proxy with Anti-Virus
• IM proxy with realtime log viewing

UI:

• Responsive web interface using AJAX techniques to provide realtime information
• Realtime traffic graphs
• All rules have an optional Comment field for ease of use
• Log viewers for all major sub-systems and firewall activity

Maintenance:

• Backup config
• Easy single-click application of all pending updates
• Shutdown and Reboot from UI

Other:

• Time service for network
• Develop Smoothwall yourself using the self-hosting “Devel” builds.