Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 08:06:09 -0400 From: DW <spock@dwinner.net> To: Philippe Lang <philippe.lang@attiksystem.ch> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: *bsd firewall appliance? Message-ID: <44B63731.6010607@dwinner.net> In-Reply-To: <6C0CF58A187DA5479245E0830AF84F421D0F1B@poweredge.attiksystem.ch> References: <6C0CF58A187DA5479245E0830AF84F421D0F1B@poweredge.attiksystem.ch>
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Philippe Lang wrote: > owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Just doing some early morning brainstorming, and my crazy thought of >> the day is this: >> >> My life would be so much easier if I could just get rid of my >> stupid PIX firewalls, and replace them what I know and love: >> FreeBSD. It's not that the PIX's have been causing me >> problems or anything like that, it's just that I believe in >> streamlining whenever possible, and since we've already >> exterminated Microsoft in my server room for at least 3 >> years, the only thing left that's not running FreeBSD are my >> appliances (firewalls and switches) and 2 leftover legacy >> servers still running Redhat that haven't been worth the >> effort to migrate to FreeBSD. I'm a one-man shop, and I can >> survive using the PIX IOS when I have to, but would just as >> soon use BSD if I could. Questions: >> >> 1) If I did this, I would probably only do it if I could >> figure out how to rack up some diskless servers to my 2-post >> communications rack. Any thoughts on hardware candidates, etc.? >> >> 2) If I did this, maybe it would be wiser to go with OpenBSD >> instead, since it is known for security? >> >> 3) Any good tutorials on setting up a diskless servers for >> Free/OpenBSD? >> >> 4) Any other considerations? >> >> 5) Am I just being stupid and should I just keep my PIX's >> going? I know, I know, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. >> > > Hi, > > Maybe a good start for you would be to have a look at http://www.m0n0.ch/wall/. > WOW!!!!!! This is exactly what I was looking for and more! Can't wait to start trying it out! Thanks! > Cheers, > > --------------- > Philippe Lang > Attik System > >
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