I think opnSense is the open source fork of pfSense after it went closed-source. That's the one you want to look into.
Good luck! :) " 'With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning... The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we’re all damaged." - Jean-Luc Picard, quoting Judge Aaron Satie, Star Trek: TNG episode "The Drumhead" - Alex Smith - Kent, Washington (metropolitan Seattle area) On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 9:48 PM Gibson Prichard <[email protected]> wrote: > It's not Linux, bur FreeBSD - pfSense at pfsense.org. I think it's every > bit as good as paid firewalls, particularly once you add in Snort and maybe > a web proxy for content filtering (if that's your need). > > Gibson Prichard > Nashville, TN > [email protected] > > > On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 9:17 AM Howard White <[email protected]> wrote: > >> As I was saying at the last meeting, whereas ten to fifteen years ago >> "we" were better off buying an appliance firewall as opposed to creating >> one in linux - the times have changed and those appliance firewalls >> don't cut it anymore. >> >> < >> https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2018/12/20/most-home-routers-lack-simple-linux-os-hardening-security/?utm_source=Naked+Security+-+Sophos+List&utm_campaign=56d3560d52-Naked+Security+daily+news+email&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_31623bb782-56d3560d52-455119797 >> > >> >> January meeting - let's drag in some linux built firewalls and allow our >> penetration tester to blast away. We might learn something. >> >> Teaser - I went in search of a continuing 32bit linux OS and found one. >> Is it good enough for a firewall? >> > -- > -- > 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 > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
