On Monday 14 March 2011 09:38:50 Neo Taoist Techno Pagan wrote:
> It's time to rebuild the firewall since I am still running IPCop stable -
> and no updates since 2008. I have looked at many of the firewall distros
> and have not really found one that I just want to use immediately.
>
> This is for a home office, nothing too fancy. One thing I think I will need
> since my kids' net usage is becoming more bandwidth-heavy is something that
> will let me limit their bandwidth and have proxy caching to same overall
> bandwidth - plus that should help when I have Windows PCs I need to fix
> since the updates from Microsoft would be cached too.
>
> I have looked at Untangle, Endian, Astaro, Smoothwall, and a few others.
> What would some of you recommend?
I use IPCop right now, but my next firewall will be BSD based. I might go
OpenBSD/pf, or a pfsense software appliance somewhat analogous to IPCop.
I forwarded your question to the GoLUG list, and got several positive replies
about BSD based firewalls. This one from Chad Perrin is very interesting:
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I've written some articles that provide some
kind of introduction to some of the possibilities with PF:
Using PF and ALTQ for QoS management
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=391
Use firewall software like PF to protect your desktop systems
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=4833
The Book of PF is the canonical reference for the PF firewall
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=5030
Filtering PF firewall logs
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=5046
For the more casual user, two firewall distributions based on PF are very
popular:
m0n0wall
http://m0n0.ch/wall/
pfSense
http://www.pfsense.org/
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HTH
SteveT
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http://www.recession-relief.US
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