On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 11:12 PM, Tim Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I stumbled upon a "new" open source firewall product this evening. Ever heard > of Fyrewall? Some information from the Freshmeat project page at > http://freshmeat.net/projects/fyrewall/?branch_id=76300&release_id=287163 : > > "Fyrewall is a firewall system based on FreeBSD. It is distributed for free > on CD, with optional support plans available for purchase. It comes with an > easy installation interface. It includes features such as full control via a > Web interface, an aliasing system for easing management of firewall rules, > failover clustering support via CARP, load balancing, integrated VPN support > for many popular protocols, traffic and system statistics reporting, and a > packaging system." > > It sounded quite similar to pfSense's offerings so I figured I'd check it > out. Looking through screenshots and other resources on their site > http://www.fyrewall.com.br/ , it appears that Fyrewall is nothing but a > rebranded version of pfSense, probably from the 1.3 branch judging by the > screenshots, and translated to Spanish. >
>From the screenshots, that's definitely based on 1.2 with the Dashboard package installed. They do mention being pfSense-based. "The Fyrewall is a free software based on FreeBSD, on pfsense framework" - from google translate. > While pfSense is open source and of course permits this sort of 'offshoot' > project, has anyone else heard/used/experienced/etc this "Fyrewall"? I'd > never leave my beloved pfSense for something like this, but I'm purely > curious... > I guess not unless you speak Portuguese. :) At least Google says their website is in Portuguese. It'd be nice to revive our translation efforts so people don't need to do things like this for the sake of putting it in a different language. It's not a priority of any of our current developers. This group should be interested in doing that though, would be nice to get a code contribution back. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
