Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 08:24:30 -0400 From: Kevin Kobb <kkobb@skylinecorp.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: router / firewall with PF and carp. Message-ID: <4CA5D2FE.8070900@skylinecorp.com> In-Reply-To: <20101001001926.6ef8aa93@davenulle.org> References: <20101001001926.6ef8aa93@davenulle.org>
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Both would probably be fine. However, I would recommend taking a look at pfsense if I were you. It is made to do what you want without as much of the overhead as a full blown *BSD install. It is easier to configure, update, the documentation is good, and you can get top notch paid support from the developers if you want. On 9/30/2010 6:19 PM, Patrick Lamaiziere wrote: > Hi, > > We are in the process to replace two Cisco Pix firewalls and one Cisco > router with two servers running PF with carp. The network is large > (it is an University) and all will depend on this two machines. > > We have made some tests with OpenBSD, PF and OpenBGPD and it looks to > work (but we have to make a lot of more tests to validate this). > > I think that the support for an OpenBSD release is very small (only one > year) and I'm suggesting to use FreeBSD instead (we can expect ~3/4 > years of support if we follow a stable branch). > > I am an happy user of FreeBSD since some time - I mean that I know it is > not perfect and there are some bugs! - but I dont have any experience > running it as a router on a large network. So, are PF and carp expected > to work fine on FreeBSD or are there some known problems? > > Do you think that OpenBSD suits better for this? > > Thanks, regards. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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