*bsd firewall appliance?

[Philippe Lang]

owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Just doing some early morning brainstorming, and my crazy thought of
> the day is this: 
> 
> My life would be so much easier if I could just get rid of my
> stupid PIX firewalls, and replace them what I know and love:
> FreeBSD. It's not that the PIX's have been causing me
> problems or anything like that, it's just that I believe in
> streamlining whenever possible, and since we've already
> exterminated Microsoft in my server room for at least 3
> years, the only thing left that's not running FreeBSD are my
> appliances (firewalls and switches) and 2 leftover legacy
> servers still running Redhat that haven't been worth the
> effort to migrate to FreeBSD. I'm a one-man shop, and I can
> survive using the PIX IOS when I have to, but would just as
> soon use BSD if I could. Questions:
> 
> 1) If I did this, I would probably only do it if I could
> figure out how to rack up some diskless servers to my 2-post
> communications rack. Any thoughts on hardware candidates, etc.?
> 
> 2) If I did this, maybe it would be wiser to go with OpenBSD
> instead, since it is known for security?
> 
> 3) Any good tutorials on setting up a diskless servers for
> Free/OpenBSD? 
> 
> 4) Any other considerations?
> 
> 5) Am I just being stupid and should I just keep my PIX's
> going? I know, I know, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Hi,

Maybe a good start for you would be to have a look at http://www.m0n0.ch/wall/.

Cheers,

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Philippe Lang
Attik System

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