My current recommendation for Free/Cheap open source firewalls is Endian Firewall (Community Edition) 2.3.
It's quite capable out of the box, and I won't list all the features here... but I will link to their page: http://www.endian.com/en/community/feature-comparison/ We used to use ClarkConnect, but I feel like the transition to ClearOS needs a major version number for them to clean up the project. But since finding Endian, I'm very unlikely to move back... I like it. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District ----- Original Message ----- From: Matt Plahtinsky [mailto:[email protected]] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:28:02 -0700 Subject: Firewall Question (Different than Johnathan's question but similar. Might help us both out. ) > I was reading though Jonathan's "Firewall Recommendation" thread and it got > me thinking. I have a non profit client that their Firewall is on its way > to Firewall heaven (actually firewall hell but we will not go there). I > have been looking at the recommendations of the group for the different > vendors. I need something cheap though and was wondering if anyone could > recommend some FREE open source firewalls. I started looking at M0n0wall ( > http://m0n0.ch/wall/) today and it looks really cool. Load it on a USB > Thumb drive and hook it up to an old p4 and you have a beast of a firewall > for a SMB. PC dies and just move the USB Thumb Drive to another old P4 and > keep going. Dose anyone have any experience with M0n0wall or any other > open source software type for smb's? > > Thanks > > Matt > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
