From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 1 12:17:42 2010 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 297361065670 for ; Fri, 1 Oct 2010 12:17:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from espada.jorge@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f175.google.com (mail-qy0-f175.google.com [209.85.216.175]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDA2F8FC13 for ; Fri, 1 Oct 2010 12:17:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk8 with SMTP id 8so1563046qyk.13 for ; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 05:17:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=M3s28SM89tNZuUOQjdwnwuPSoe6khpuR39zOdH2t9AY=; b=k+0TP9kRiBvnAu1jbbRQTdscAsHNaejLSp4mSdIRjGB97J//7HaqvBTGw0OsKZe0oS Ij63zfH6C7YlNX641tjcJaxw3MBr04aoCLW0niACK0jOmgaherK11br3NziVM9WH7nBO DxpARiAemjG60fbf1WTYHRAXU2TksgUWpDAdE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=mURY8moDOySk7PHXpIpxBMQsM2wUxJbntDUsJxUKeFdnhkx8wK4z3YtMcPiTyYbL09 MuN8JIYJfCkB+5JiKgvWpO7iNDTnSVE8lrcYUSHNdBsXmy4F3TNn1KgLTI7g084Sg+73 0qR7CBN6d5vGwYv9OmLD1IMsic/abIoFizUJg= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.73.132 with SMTP id q4mr3854548qcj.132.1285935460859; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 05:17:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.89.84 with HTTP; Fri, 1 Oct 2010 05:17:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <20101001001926.6ef8aa93@davenulle.org> Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 09:17:40 -0300 Message-ID: From: jorge espada To: krad Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Patrick Lamaiziere , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: router / firewall with PF and carp. 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: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 12:17:42 -0000 I can say that both of them are pretty good choice, in my personal experience I had the same configuration that you are planning to implement qith two servers on OpenBsd 4.6 + carp+ bgp as a router in a huge network , the only problem was some well know bug with carp and bgp..that for some reason some times one of the server nic (carp-backup) try to became master, when wasn't necesary... and the routes were screwed up. But now with the new openbsd 4.8, if i were you I would give it a try Jorge E. Espada On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 6:29 AM, krad wrote: > On 30 September 2010 23:19, Patrick Lamaiziere >wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > We are in the process to replace two Cisco Pix firewalls and one Cisco > > router with two servers running PF with carp. The network is large > > (it is an University) and all will depend on this two machines. > > > > We have made some tests with OpenBSD, PF and OpenBGPD and it looks to > > work (but we have to make a lot of more tests to validate this). > > > > I think that the support for an OpenBSD release is very small (only one > > year) and I'm suggesting to use FreeBSD instead (we can expect ~3/4 > > years of support if we follow a stable branch). > > > > I am an happy user of FreeBSD since some time - I mean that I know it is > > not perfect and there are some bugs! - but I dont have any experience > > running it as a router on a large network. So, are PF and carp expected > > to work fine on FreeBSD or are there some known problems? > > > > Do you think that OpenBSD suits better for this? > > > > Thanks, regards. > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > In my experiance freebsd should work fine. However I would say openbsd is > probably better suited to your needs, due to its tighter security model > (auditing) You will also get a newer version of pf with openbsd. If you get > issues with openBGP would could look at quagga. I have used it in the past > but havent for a while so am not sure of the state of it now. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >