Hi Jim, I'm a BIG fan of pfSense, especially if you're running it on "embedded" style hardware (CF card instead of a disk, no moving parts). I can use SNMP to monitor it, it has the ability to run Snort right on the box, you can install ntop and darkstat to gather statistics, and it automatically generates RRD graphs of traffic, link quality, and system resources. A nice benefit for heavy environments is that it also does multi-WAN failover very easily.
Alex ________________________________________________________ Alex Robar, Technical Support, GearyTech Inc. 3075 Fourteenth Avenue, Unit 3, Markham, Ontario L3R 0G9 Markham: 905-513-8000 x 223 Fax: 905-513-8040 Toronto: 416-226-3614 Toll Free: 888-890-3499 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.gearytech.com Strategic management of technology for business. -----Original Message----- From: Jim Van Meggelen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 8:32 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [on-asterisk] Survey: what are people's experience with various routers? Folks, Lately it seems that the GNU/Linux firewall, iptables, is emerging as one of the best. Even many hardware products are based on it. If cost were no object, and you needed to buy a firewall (that of course had to do a good job with VoIP), what would be on your wish list? What would you avoid like a plague? (ask Leif about SonicWall) Any thoughts and opinions are most welcome. Regards, Jim -- Jim Van Meggelen Core Telecom Innovations [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.coretel.ca 416-425-6111 x6001 877-CORETEL x6001 (Canada) www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2177 http://downloads.oreilly.com/books/9780596510480.pdf --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
