It recently became critical for me to have multiple IP addresses on the ‘Red’ interface of my Smoothwall 3.0 Express firewall. After searching Google and the Smoothwall forums for help, and not finding any mention of pre-built plugins that do this for you nor finding any straight forward recipes / how-to’s either, I decided [...]

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Our recent Tivo HD and HD-DVD purchases have caused us to need one more TOSLINK fiber-optic digital audio cable (because one of them, I forget exactly which, didn’t come with it and it only uses fiber-optic and not coaxial wire.) So I went on a search online. It turns out you can buy [...]

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A friend asked me the other day how to get his Tivo to make it’s daily call through his home network. Besides simply getting on the network via a wired or wireless connection, the real problem most people don’t think about is that the Tivo uses a large number of network ports to call [...]

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Recently, a friend who had read my blog asked me what I ran my Smoothwall 3.0 Express firewall on. I tried to explain the tiny, fan-less, little case which I use. I bought it with the CPU (VIA C3) and three built-in-NIC motherboard all as a single unit. I only had [...]

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