[geeks] Firewall recommendation?

[Michael Parson]

On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 02:44:16PM -0600, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Nate wrote:
> 
> > Do you guys have favorite firewalls?
> 
> Reliable computing hardware running OpenBSD[0].  If you're multihomed
> and use BGP for route-advertising, the software is built right in.  If
> you want to run a pair of firewalls with the capability to cluster
> therm, you can do that, too.  It's easy to manage (it's just BSD), and
> you really can't beat the price.
> 
> 
> [0] NetBSD has better networking performance, but OpenBSD has pf, so
>      it's a close call.

NetBSD has pf in pkgsrc and it will be included in the base OS in 3.0,
which is in RC5 right now, release is "any day now."

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Michael Parson
mparson at bl.org