Does that free Sophos UTM firewall mentioned here a bit back meet your needs? I'm not sure about the failover part, but you might want to have a look...
http://www.sophos.com/en-us/products/free-tools/sophos-utm-home-edition. aspx -sc From: Beach Computers Web Hosting [mailto:gro...@beachcomp.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 2:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Dual Wan Soho High Speed Router Suggestions Ideally $150 tops. I don't mind using a PC as I have so many laying around, but whatever I end up with would ideally be a little idiot proof as I'm no linux guru. :) From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 9:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Dual Wan Soho High Speed Router Suggestions OpenBSD is a popular option in the PC router realm. As for appliances, Sophos (Astaro) and Fortinet sell very affordable devices that would handle this function as well. What's your budget? ASB http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker <http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker> Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations & Information Security) for the SMB market... On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Ben Scott <mailvor...@gmail.com> wrote: On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 9:09 AM, Shane Mullins <tsmulli...@gmail.com> wrote: > Since you mentioned using a PC based router, OpenBSD has supported failover > for at least eight years. Performance is great and their security is top > notch. OpenBSD uses pf as a firewall. Pf is much easier to use, for me, > than iptables. FYI, Linux *can* do this too, but if I didn't have experience with either, I'd go with OpenBSD/pf, too. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin