From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 14 18:51:23 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C71016A4DD for ; Fri, 14 Jul 2006 18:51:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lars@socruel.nu) Received: from gone.xs4all.nl (gone.xs4all.nl [213.84.247.136]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87BF843D49 for ; Fri, 14 Jul 2006 18:51:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lars@socruel.nu) Received: from saturnus.intra.socruel.nu (saturnus.intra.socruel.nu [172.16.0.12]) by gone.xs4all.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E45333D2E; Fri, 14 Jul 2006 20:51:19 +0200 (CEST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-class: urn:content-classes:message X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 20:51:19 +0200 Message-ID: <302F75DC2739FB43B236373398A8C5992958@saturnus.intra.socruel.nu> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: *bsd firewall appliance? Thread-Index: Acamda7YfArz/XtNTsqDMFlLphuQzgBAFw6w From: "FreeBSD-Questions" Sender: "Lars Wittebrood" To: "DW" , Cc: Subject: RE: *bsd firewall appliance? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 18:51:23 -0000 =20 -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of DW Posted At: Thursday, July 13, 2006 2:06 PM Posted To: FreeBSD-Questions Conversation: *bsd firewall appliance? Subject: Re: *bsd firewall appliance? Philippe Lang wrote: > owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org wrote: > =20 >> Hi all, >> >> Just doing some early morning brainstorming, and my crazy thought of=20 >> the day is this: >> >> My life would be so much easier if I could just get rid of my stupid=20 >> PIX firewalls, and replace them what I know and love: >> FreeBSD. It's not that the PIX's have been causing me problems or=20 >> 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=20 >> FreeBSD are my appliances (firewalls and switches) and 2 leftover=20 >> legacy servers still running Redhat that haven't been worth the=20 >> effort to migrate to FreeBSD. I'm a one-man shop, and I can survive=20 >> 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=20 >> how to rack up some diskless servers to my 2-post communications=20 >> 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=20 >> Free/OpenBSD? >> >> 4) Any other considerations? >> >> 5) Am I just being stupid and should I just keep my PIX's going? I=20 >> know, I know, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. >> =20 > > Hi, > > Maybe a good start for you would be to have a look at http://www.m0n0.ch/wall/. > =20 WOW!!!!!! This is exactly what I was looking for and more! Can't wait to start trying it out! Thanks! > Cheers, > > --------------- > Philippe Lang > Attik System > > =20 _______________________________________________ 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" Hi, If you like m0nowall also take a look at pfSense (www.pfsense.com)! Maybe worth your while. Regards, Lars.