[geeks] Firewall recommendation?

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Tue Dec 6 15:24:27 CST 2005


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.

How hard is it to graft pf onto NetBSD?  I've heard it's been done.

Peace...  Sridhar



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