*bsd firewall appliance?

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From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of DW
Posted At: Thursday, July 13, 2006 2:06 PM
Posted To: FreeBSD-Questions
Conversation: *bsd firewall appliance?
Subject: Re: *bsd firewall appliance?


Philippe Lang wrote:
> 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/.
>   
WOW!!!!!! This is exactly what I was looking for and more! Can't wait to
start trying it out! Thanks!


> Cheers,
>
> ---------------
> Philippe Lang
> Attik System
>
>   
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Hi,

If you like m0nowall also take a look at pfSense (www.pfsense.com)!
Maybe worth your while.


Regards,
Lars.