From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 22 07:44:50 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A18C16A418 for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2007 07:44:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from donovan@dmpnet.org) Received: from mazar.dmpnet.org (mazar.dmpnet.org [87.127.11.92]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 426BA13C47E for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2007 07:44:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from donovan@dmpnet.org) Received: from DonovansLaptop (ibm-laptop.dmpnet.org [192.168.67.101]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mazar.dmpnet.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA0B91054 for ; Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:14:21 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <001301c82c83$7b1dfd40$6543a8c0@DonovansLaptop> From: "Donovan R. Palmer" To: Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:14:15 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Review on Software Firewalls 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, 22 Nov 2007 07:44:50 -0000 Here is a great blog on seven Linux/BSD firewalls. = http://linuxcult.blogspot.com/2007/11/seven-different-linuxbsd-firewalls.= html The winner is PFSense which is (ta-da!), based on FreeBSD. I have = been using PFSense for nearly a year now and totally agree with this = blog's conclusions.