Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 17:22:09 +0100 From: Brad Knowles <brad@shub-internet.org> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Top-notch firewall config w/ FreeBSD? Message-ID: <v04220813b475868e2a49@[195.238.1.121]>
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Folks, I'm wondering if you can give me some advice on this issue, or if you can give me guidance on where I should take this question (freebsd-security?). Anyway, the short of it is that we're getting fed up paying high hardware and astronomical software costs for our Firewall-1 setup, and we're concerned that it may not be able to continue to scale with us as we grow anyway. In terms of the features, we're really not making that much use of everything it can do, instead we're mostly using it for packet filtering. Given all this, we're interested in the possibility of replacing it with either a Linux or FreeBSD-based solution. My personal preference is FreeBSD, but we're probably going to need to at least try a comparable Linux setup (if any such thing exists). What I'd like is to see what folks would recommend for use as a primarily packet filtering firewall solution under FreeBSD that can handle upwards of 150Mbps today (w/ Gigabit Ethernet NICs), and scale to even higher levels in the future. Ideally this would be something that could do load-balancing and high-availability as well, so that one system could take over the whole load if the other should die. Thanks! -- Brad Knowles <brad@shub-internet.org> <http://www.shub-internet.org/brad/>; <http://wwwkeys.pgp.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xE38CCEF1>; Your mouse has moved. Windows NT must be restarted for the change to take effect. Reboot now? [ OK ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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