There are lots of superior open source solutions for spam and virus filtering at the firewall level. The same is true for doing virus filtering of http traffic. Content Filtering (ie: URL filtering) has several really good options as well. My personal opinion is that we encourage people who have a solution that they like, to put together a package for pfsense. I, personally, don't see any reason why several different solution packages couldn't co-exist in the packages tree and let people choose the one that works best for their site. I personally may not want to use HAVP, but I know lots of people who like it. SquidGuard works great for my purposes, but lots of people like Dansguardian. Having choices is always preferable.
As for Dansguardian, I know that the author is working directly for Smoothwall Ltd. selling essentially a competing product to pfSense. I would be curious to see if the $500 license would be adequate. -Gary -----Original Message----- From: chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 10:41 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [pfSense-discussion] Re: Content Filtering Scott Ullrich wrote: >Last I checked Dans Guardian was 500$ for a commercial license. If >it comes down to it, the community can always pitch in and buy a >license. I've spoken with someone from Dans Guardian in the past and >they seemed very willing to help out. > >Scott > > >On 10/26/05, chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >I know that most of the business proponents seem to be interested in copfilter for the virus and spam filtering. IPCop is >the only distro to offer this as an Open source solution. Albeit an addon which breaks every time IPCop is upgraded. The >copfilter download page states it has had 3309 downloads in four weeks. > > Chris
