Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 05:29:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Danial Thom <danial_thom@yahoo.com> To: DW <spock@dwinner.net>, Philippe Lang <philippe.lang@attiksystem.ch> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: *bsd firewall appliance? Message-ID: <20060713122925.96823.qmail@web33314.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <44B63731.6010607@dwinner.net>
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You clowns with your diskless servers just crack me up. Everyone brags about their years of uptime on their servers, yet you just can't put up a firewall or router without a disk. What, are you still using mfm drives or something? --- DW <spock@dwinner.net> wrote: > 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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