From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 13 12:06:16 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D52E16A4DD for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 12:06:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from spock@dwinner.net) Received: from outbound-mail-20.bluehost.com (outbound-mail-20.bluehost.com [70.98.111.235]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 22F9343D55 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 12:06:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from spock@dwinner.net) Received: (qmail 26957 invoked by uid 0); 13 Jul 2006 12:06:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box122.bluehost.com) (67.106.44.122) by mailproxy1.bluehost.com with SMTP; 13 Jul 2006 12:06:11 -0000 Received: from c-69-142-142-207.hsd1.nj.comcast.net ([69.142.142.207] helo=[192.168.1.103]) by box122.bluehost.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.52) id 1G0zxL-0005qu-Gc; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 06:06:11 -0600 Message-ID: <44B63731.6010607@dwinner.net> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 08:06:09 -0400 From: DW User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Philippe Lang References: <6C0CF58A187DA5479245E0830AF84F421D0F1B@poweredge.attiksystem.ch> In-Reply-To: <6C0CF58A187DA5479245E0830AF84F421D0F1B@poweredge.attiksystem.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Identified-User: {731:box122.bluehost.com:dwinnern:dwinner.net} {sentby:smtp auth 69.142.142.207 authed with dwinner@dwinner.net} Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: *bsd firewall appliance? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 12:06:16 -0000 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 > >