From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 13 12:29:26 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 DF5CD16A4E0 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 12:29:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danial_thom@yahoo.com) Received: from web33314.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web33314.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.206.129]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 44B3843D46 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 12:29:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from danial_thom@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 96825 invoked by uid 60001); 13 Jul 2006 12:29:25 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=2h234H/QHXcVa17ceq44jTzuAfJpbFr5V9FEbu1sxzx8zifUdgBhUUj2tMSwxi25XAFz7LZIk6xmVEXmvqOIM15yyXWgJSvhBHWFICMD5Eojx5SiqOyhmIR1VZEn+zWF0FmK/DmfKBpkUg3eJS87GGpRDC7Rc3h/deThV7FXBTU= ; Message-ID: <20060713122925.96823.qmail@web33314.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [65.34.182.15] by web33314.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 05:29:25 PDT Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 05:29:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Danial Thom To: DW , Philippe Lang In-Reply-To: <44B63731.6010607@dwinner.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: *bsd firewall appliance? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: danial_thom@yahoo.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 12:29:27 -0000 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 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