[nycbug-talk] router/firewall recommendation ?

[Siobhan P. Lynch]

If you go that direction, theres any one of the BSD's - Open and Free  
coming to mind, but Free, because you can use a combination of pf,  
ipfw, and ipf if need be to implement all kinds of wacky stuff *laugh*

-Trish


On Dec 23, 2008, at 2:13 PM, Dan Colish wrote:

> Rather than run pfsense i'd recommend just straight openbsd. It will  
> do all the same stuff, since pf is from the openbsd project, but  
> without a web gui. I find it easier to configure and control.
>
> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Max Gribov <max at neuropunks.org>  
> wrote:
> Jonathan Vanasco wrote:
> > I haven't touched any of this stuff in a long time - hoping someone
> >
> pfsense is very cool, takes about 30 mins to setup, has ability to
> ha-cluster, and will go on pretty much any hardware
> you can get some pci wireless card for the wireless part, although
> personally i never tried to make a wifi router out of freebsd..
>
> cisco 800's are cool too.
> one cool thing about 800's is that you can use older ram (non-ddr)  
> in them
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833120314
>
>
> > can offer advice/suggestions.
> >
> > So my options right now are:
> >       - dd-wrt or similar
> >       - soekris / alix
> >
> > But I haven't checked on those projects in forever.  Are they still
> > viable ?  Are the setup times still 1day+ ?
> >
> > Thanks!
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