Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:20:02 -0800 From: "galenz@zinkconsulting.com" <galenz@zinkconsulting.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Advanced Routing/Firewall Interface Options for FreeBSD 7 Message-ID: <354DE91A-5523-4195-9E39-916BEE1139ED@zinkconsulting.com>
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Hello, I am trying to combine my file server and router into a single box. Before you tell me this is a bad idea, let me remind you this is a personal installation (not intensive file serving) and the machine and NICs are fairly beefy. FreeBSD 7 supports ZFS. From there, NFS and Samba are easy. I've been using Solaris for this, but it's rather archaic in many ways, and the only reason I use it is for the stable ZFS support. Everything else in Solaris - given my needs - is a poor match. Can anybody suggest what options there are for having a router/ firewall configuration interface placed atop FreeBSD 7 with ZFS? I want something along the lines of pfSense (GUI for traffic shaping, hopefully setup a simple VPN) that can also serve files and perhaps run some software that puts free CPU cycles to use. Maybe I might run Apache/MySQL for testing a few sites locally. Any ideas? pfSense is not designed to work atop a standard FreeBSD distribution, nor is m0n0wall, and even if I used or modified their integrated distribution, I suspect it lacks ZFS support. -Galen
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