Fwd: Q: case studies about scalable, enterprise-class firewall w/ IPFilter

Max Laier max at love2party.net
Tue Aug 5 10:06:13 UTC 2008


Hello Matthias,

On Tuesday 05 August 2008 10:05:20 Matthias Apitz wrote:
> We're currently protecting our network (and as well some FreeBSD laptops
> standalone) with IPFilter... I'm wondering if there are any case studies
> about scalable, enterprise-class firewall solutions, redundancy with
> state-full failover, and application-level inspection, and all that a
> like, based on IPFilter and FreeBSD;
>
> thanks in advance for any pointers

if IPFilter isn't the primary selection criteria, you might want to take a 
look at www.pfsense.org.  Application-level inspection is just in the making, 
but all your other feature requests get a check mark.

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