[nycbug-talk] router/firewall recommendation ?

[Charles Sprickman]

On Tue, 23 Dec 2008, matt at atopia.net wrote:

> I second pfSense on a soekris. Worked nicely for us when we used 
> m0n0wall to implement a university housing network.

I'll third it, but on old Dell GX-110s.  $99 on EBay plus a new hard drive 
(or flash drive or SSD drive).  Quiet, low-power and a bit more oomph than 
the Alix stuff, plus a full install so you can fiddle around with all the 
packages.

While it's based on pf, the learning curve here compared to even a simple 
pf.conf is much, much lower.

C

> mj
>
> ------Original Message------
> From: George Rosamond
> Sender: talk-bounces at lists.nycbug.org
> To: Siobhan P. Lynch
> Cc: NYCBUG-Talk
> ReplyTo: george at ceetonetechnology.com
> Subject: Re: [nycbug-talk] router/firewall recommendation ?
> Sent: Dec 23, 2008 16:32
>
> Siobhan P. Lynch wrote:
>> 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
>
> (gman halting the top-posting)
>
> +1 on pfsense on a soekris or pcengines alix board.
>
> Simple, easy to manage, hard to break.
>
> Scalable if you need it. . .
>
> Sure, using pf (or ipf, ipfw) on a regular box on a regular full bsd
> makes sense in a many contexts, the reality is that for the vast
> majority of installs, pfsense more than sufficient.
>
> There's times we've gone each of the two different routes, and it always
> depends on numerous questions.
>
> But for 3-5 users, as JV stated initially, pfsense is gold.
>
> g
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