I'll second pfSense. Does Dual WANS too, allowing voip traffic on one, internet on other, fallover, load balancing, and adding Snort can add a whole level of filtering. D
Dave Bour Desktop Solution Center 905.381.0077 X501 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For people who just want IT to work Business http://www.desktopsolutioncenter.ca Personal http://www.davebour.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Alex Robar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 8:51 AM > To: Jim Van Meggelen; [email protected] > Subject: RE: [on-asterisk] Survey: what are people's experience with > various routers? > > 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
