I briefly checked into Sophos, but found that to be overkill for our needs. We settled on pfSense which is available as an ISO, a virtual appliance and on hardware (it's open source). It supports ipSec and OpenVPN tunnels for external access. It does have firewall capabilities mostly based on port rules and stateful inspection:
https://www.pfsense.org/about-pfsense/features.html Dedicated hardware is needed if you have a lot of traffic like in a switch where the theoretical throughput is 1 Gbit times half the number of ports or for a heavily used VPN gateway. But for a router/firewall the bottle neck is likely the internet connection rather than the computer. A regular PC is more powerful than most hardware that is built into physical routers. -- Christof --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/CAL4QJhj9U2G-fq=hhwvbtf3flmrjd-wskzrnt4stgum85uk...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
