From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 22 23:48:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f69.law11.hotmail.com [64.4.17.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4604037B401 for ; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 23:48:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 23:48:47 -0700 Received: from 202.182.88.14 by lw11fd.law11.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Tue, 23 Oct 2001 06:48:46 GMT X-Originating-IP: [202.182.88.14] From: "Julian Morgan" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: REQUEST FOR COMMENT Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 16:48:46 +1000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 23 Oct 2001 06:48:47.0123 (UTC) FILETIME=[C3C7F630:01C15B8E] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG
people - I am very dissappointed here and wanted your opinions.. I have helped set up a 7 site VPN between 2 states in Australia.
4 sites in Melbourne and 3 in Sydney.. The firewalls are running FreeBSD4.3 and communicate with Cisco 827 routes on ADSL 2meg/386K...
After setting all this up and starting a fresh in learning FreeBSD over the past 8 months while the system has been running, we have had some crew question the overall
effectiveness of security and other issues.. As a result they believe that it is better to get some certified hardware firewall that provider upgrades patches, instead of having
a Unix product which is open source and requires patches all the time, updates ontop of the usual monitoring, and dedicate a person to basically be ontop of all seven sites all the
time....
So besides the ISP sucking a little - it means we are going to have to upgrade the whole VPN system - and tear out the BSD boxes and get some hardware firewall!!!!!!!!
hmm yet to see the doco on this equiptment...
just wondered what your thoughts were
Regards
Julian

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