chris I have been a die-hard pfsense user/fan for over 2 years now. it is just one of those things that just works. not perfect. but VERY reliable. Its symertic NAT is somewhat less flexible with UDP-based things like VOIP (compared to iptables full cone NAT), but I have managed to work around it. the next release, 1.3, has some new features that I am looking forward to but will wait to judge when they arrive (such as traffic shaping across IPSEC tunnels). I used to use shorewall on linux. it was nice too but still nowhere near the user-friendliness of pfsense's GUI. I think one thing that may have driven pfsense's GUI early on is its origin with m0n0wall (embedded device only) in which the GUI is more or less the main (only?) way things are done.
So, if you do come across others please post them here. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Faulkner Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 8:12 AM To: NLUG Subject: [nlug] Re: What's the best drop in Firewall App out there? arno iptables is more of a script and while it is drop in, it's not very "noob" friendly. Don't mean to shoot you down on this one and while arno is a good firewall solution for a system that's already up and running, a firewall you could drop in and pretty much walk away from without have to resort to knowing much linux or even how a firewall works. Console based firewalls are best IMO, but I have a few clients that no nothing of Linux but can read a web front end and I'm just curious if there are any more out there like this. So far pfSense is the only one I can find out there that is "noob" friendly and I found it by mistake one day so i'm making sure that there is not a few more floating around like this. Are there any appliance-like firewall applications that have a web front end, good reporting and performance? On Nov 11, 6:32 pm, "Greg Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Chris Faulkner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Also, if > > there are any other dropin firewall apps that are open source and don't > > require a crapton of hardware requirements (a.k.a. Untangle), post them down > > i'd like to check them out. > > apt-get install arno-iptables-firewall > > Provides an easy to customize iptables firewall and NAT. Very > drop-in, very easy to customize. > > -- > Greg Donaldhttp://destiney.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
