Cool.  Looks like I have a bunch of shinny new firewall toys to test out
this week.

Thanks guys.

Matt

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Matthew W. Ross
<[email protected]>wrote:

> 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! ~
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>
>

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