Thanks Mark, I too have been using pfSense for a while now and have it set up in a few of my clients offices and it just works right. I'm using the 2.0 alpha on all of them and on my home box here at the house. I have not had one complaint from any of my clients on the appliance, even with the ALPHA. If I find something else along those lines, I definitely will post my findings on it.
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 8:19 AM, Mark J. Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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/ > > > > > -- Chris Faulkner 615-653-4400 (Skype: chris.faulkner615) Linux/Unix/Windows Network Engineer LinkedIn TeamNashville Group: 1100+ members: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=76329 BBS Enthusiast group: http://groups.google.com/group/80sbbs --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
