[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:
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>>Do you guys have favorite firewalls?
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> 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.
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> [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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