[nycbug-talk] Firewall

[Charles Sprickman]

You might want to add pfSense to the list:

http://www.pfsense.org/

They are a fork of m0n0wall that uses FreeBSD 6-stable and pf.  They are 
very close to the 1.0 release and it's looking very good.  OpenBSD stopped 
working on my hardware so I've been running this for a few weeks at home 
and have been very happy with it.

Charles

On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Steve Rieger wrote:

> Y'all
>
> (been on the west side for a bit too long)
>
>
> am looking for opinions and some help here,
>
> Netscreen 10	Monowall		Astaro		Securepoint			Cisco PIX (cheapest one)
> appliance		appliance		appliance	appliance			Appliance					(note
> appliance is also if the fw is running on unix as a fw only ie soekris)
> yes				yes				unknown	yes					Yes							VPN Server
> yes				yes				Yes			Unknown			Yes							DHCP SERVER
> Yes				Unknown		Yes			Yes					Yes							Intrusion detection
> No				Unknown		Yes			Yes					No ?						Spam (anti)
> Yes ?			Unknown		Yes			Unkwnown			No ?						Content Filtering
> No				Unknown	Unknown		Yes					No ?						Virus Protection (email)
> yes				unknown	unknown		yes					Unknown					DHCP Cllient (WAN PORT)
> $100			GPL(SW)		FFPU (SW)	FFPU (SW)			$2000						aproxamite cost.
> FFPU = free for private use, SW = software only.
>
>
> From this list i am devising that the following are mandatory
>
>
> firewall shouuld be an appliance that runs not much else
> should be a dhcp server on the trusted side.
>
>
> can you guys halp me out here, i would like to have a decent matrix,
> once it finalized i will put it up on the faq page. also if there is
> sonething out there that i missed let me know
> --
> Steve Rieger
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