On Wednesday, July 17, 2013 05:00:16 PM Alan Jachimiak wrote:
I'm okay sacrificing a /some/ resources for good looks, but pfsense only /suggests/ <512MB RAM for some isolated use cases. That sounds pretty efficient to me. So, I'm going to bite the bullet and give pfSense a try. (pfsense.org[1]) My current FreeNas based on FreeBSD has been OK to deal with so, I think I've got a fighting chance. I'm dissatisfied with the firewall in my Westell 6100 DSL modem/router and have thought about alternatives including pfsense. ISTM that a valuable Linux skill to possess is to be able to specify custom firewall rules in the native firewall language (as opposed to using a firewall GUI front-end). For Linux, this language is iptables. IMO, iptables has a steep learning curve. Nevertheless, IMO the learning investment in iptables is worthwhile. pfsense uses its own firewall language. So this would just add to an already *huge* Linux learning burden (iptables plus *tons* of other stuff). I'd be interested if anyone has any counterarguments to this. -- Phenom II X2 555 | Biostar TA890FXE | 2 x 4G DDR3 1333 | Maxtor 80G PATA | GeForce 210 -------- [1] http://pfsense.org
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