From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 28 19:32:49 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 0291D16A417 for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:32:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from galenz@zinkconsulting.com) Received: from host.zinkconsulting.com (host.zinkconsulting.com [209.59.162.221]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1A7C13C44B for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:32:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from galenz@zinkconsulting.com) Received: from [76.104.240.26] (helo=[192.168.0.100]) by host.zinkconsulting.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1IxRW1-0005dP-KS for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:20:05 -0500 Message-Id: <354DE91A-5523-4195-9E39-916BEE1139ED@zinkconsulting.com> From: "galenz@zinkconsulting.com" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v915) Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:20:02 -0800 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.915) X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - host.zinkconsulting.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - zinkconsulting.com Subject: Advanced Routing/Firewall Interface Options for FreeBSD 7 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: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:32:49 -0000 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