Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 13:37:13 +0200 From: "Philippe Lang" <philippe.lang@attiksystem.ch> To: <spock@dwinner.net>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: *bsd firewall appliance? Message-ID: <6C0CF58A187DA5479245E0830AF84F421D0F1B@poweredge.attiksystem.ch>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_000E_01C6A681.70DE59D0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org wrote: > Hi all, > > Just doing some early morning brainstorming, and my crazy thought of > the day is this: > > My life would be so much easier if I could just get rid of my > stupid PIX firewalls, and replace them what I know and love: > FreeBSD. It's not that the PIX's have been causing me > problems or anything like that, it's just that I believe in > streamlining whenever possible, and since we've already > exterminated Microsoft in my server room for at least 3 > years, the only thing left that's not running FreeBSD are my > appliances (firewalls and switches) and 2 leftover legacy > servers still running Redhat that haven't been worth the > effort to migrate to FreeBSD. I'm a one-man shop, and I can > survive using the PIX IOS when I have to, but would just as > soon use BSD if I could. Questions: > > 1) If I did this, I would probably only do it if I could > figure out how to rack up some diskless servers to my 2-post > communications rack. Any thoughts on hardware candidates, etc.? > > 2) If I did this, maybe it would be wiser to go with OpenBSD > instead, since it is known for security? > > 3) Any good tutorials on setting up a diskless servers for > Free/OpenBSD? > > 4) Any other considerations? > > 5) Am I just being stupid and should I just keep my PIX's > going? I know, I know, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Hi, Maybe a good start for you would be to have a look at http://www.m0n0.ch/wall/. 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