On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 11:59 AM, BSDwiz <[email protected]> wrote: > > Guys, > I was Listening to a packetpushers.netpodcast regarding the topic of > firewalls and decided to chime in. I thought you may have some thoughts or > opinions to add. Basically, I mentioned pfSense and was not very happy with > his(Greg Ferro) response. If you get a minute, check out this guys > reasoning behind not using pfSense.
It's a reasonable response - I've heard much worse, and things that have no basis in reality, from the likes of enterprise consultants such as Greg (I've been following his blog for a long time and listen to a few of the packetpushers podcasts). He's much more sensible in general than a lot of Cisco fan boys I've encountered. Reasonable response to the extent that it's possible to get in and screw with things, install additional software, etc. and in some environments that's unacceptable. In others it's a huge, huge plus, there are countless examples of people being able to meet the specific requirements in their environment only because it's an open platform that can be easily modified or added to. In those instances they simply could never meet the ideal requirements of their environment on a closed platform, as you're never going to get Cisco, Juniper, etc. to add a feature or do custom development for you - at best it may go into some request queue and you may see it years down the road. With an open platform you can do it yourself, or hire us to do it and have what you're looking for in a matter of days or weeks depending on the scope, that's how several of us make a full time living working on the project. The type of customers Greg does work for probably don't need anything a closed platform can't provide, and feel better about a big name on the product, regardless of cost and lack of flexibility. That lack of flexibility is viewed as a plus by some. Regardless of open or closed, there's no one product that best suits every network. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
