It took me 2 days to crawl back from a 5 second power glitch which happened recently because the CF card in my Netgate Alix machine crashed hard. Apparently the card got corrupted; cleaned it off and put a fresh image back on it. That's the good news. Even better, is that I bothered.
I have a choice to use a new Kickstarter funded project called the Shield from Itus Networks sitting on my desk. It's a 3-port fanless IDS machine based on OpenWRT and comes with Snort, antivirus and a firewall. It can be connected in-line or off a network port. I plugged it in and things started breaking. The network printer went off-line as did a USB external hard drive hooked to a wifi router. Nothing in the logs, tried turning the firewall off and quickly realized a gaping lack of maturity in this thing. I'm not bashing the effort because I believe it will be a great IDS machine in the future. pfSense on my 6 year old Alix just works. It's the result of the work put in by Netgate and pfSense team. Yudhvir _______________________________________________ pfSense mailing list https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold
