Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 05:53:40 -0400 From: DW <spock@dwinner.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: *bsd firewall appliance? Message-ID: <44B61824.7030309@dwinner.net>
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Hi all, Just doing some early morning brainstorming, and my crazy thought of the day is this: My life would be so much easier if I could just get rid of my stupid PIX firewalls, and replace them what I know and love: FreeBSD. It's not that the PIX's have been causing me problems or anything like that, it's just that I believe in streamlining whenever possible, and since we've already exterminated Microsoft in my server room for at least 3 years, the only thing left that's not running FreeBSD are my appliances (firewalls and switches) and 2 leftover legacy servers still running Redhat that haven't been worth the effort to migrate to FreeBSD. I'm a one-man shop, and I can survive using the PIX IOS when I have to, but would just as soon use BSD if I could. Questions: 1) If I did this, I would probably only do it if I could figure out how to rack up some diskless servers to my 2-post communications rack. Any thoughts on hardware candidates, etc.? 2) If I did this, maybe it would be wiser to go with OpenBSD instead, since it is known for security? 3) Any good tutorials on setting up a diskless servers for Free/OpenBSD? 4) Any other considerations? 5) Am I just being stupid and should I just keep my PIX's going? I know, I know, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Cheers, DW
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