Hi Greg,
This is making good sense (;). Always liked the Packet Normalization feature in
pf.
Also, I've had positive experienses with a combined setup of pf and untangle.
pfSense is highly recommended.
Greg Sevart wrote:
Obligatory plug for pfSense. Nowhere near as all-in-one as ClearOS, but it's
far more robust in traditional firewall, routing, QOS, and NAT functions.
Third party packages can extend its functionality considerably, too. Scales
well to old hardware too (100MHz CPU with 128M RAM and 512MB storage is
minimum). It's based on FreeBSD, and it is available free of charge too.
It's less a replacement for your typical SOHO D-Link, Linksys, and Netgear
equipment and more a functional replacement for commercial-grade devices
like a Cisco PIX/ASA, etc.
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Clearos is ideal. I love it. Used it since clark. Snap to throw
ttogether. I'm
using Clearos on a standard intel Atom mb (59) in an itx basic case (49)
512mb
ddr2 (10) and a 4gb pen drive I boot off of (6). For about 130 or so, I
have a
firewall that does every damn thing I want.
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<6. Get a cheap system (e.g. noiseless mini-ITX) for use as a
gateway/firewall.
This will do you **very** good in the
long run.>
ClearOS (used to be clarkconnect) is really nice for firewall, intrusion
detection, logging, etc. Did I mention FREE?
Since I've been running our home computer (5) through the web proxy,
using
medium filter rules and some custom tweaking, it's hard to get malware and
viruses even if you try. During testing using VM's I've visited some know
bad
sites and nothing as gotten through. Saves you a lot of cleanup and
scanning
in
the long run. It will run smoothly on a 500MHz box as long as you have
512+
RAM. Smoothwall is also pretty slick.
lopaka
