On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Gary Thornock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I used to run my home firewall on a PC with FreeBSD, but, as you > found with Linux, the initial setup was non-trivial. > > Currently I'm using pfSense on an old Pentium III box I had > sitting around. I still get the benefits of pf, but with a web > based configuration tool (can be configured for HTTP or HTTPS). > The only feature I miss from my old setup is DansGuardian, and > I'm looking into packaging that for pfSense myself.
Kimball, I suggest starting with pfSense as your platform and then determining what you want to add(wireless bridge via PCI NIC, DMZ, hardware w/o moving parts, etc.). You could begin with some used hardware if you'd prefer to pinch pennies. If you are going to be using traffic shaping with non-embedded hardware I suggest a 1GHz or better CPU with 512MB of RAM, but my setup is overkill for running Vonage, BitTorrent, and a few NAT'd ports. I've been using pfSense at home since 2005 and am still impressed. Easy to setup traffic shaping(QoS) & realtime graphs, for example. I converted some traveling Asterisk trainers to pfSense as well. I currently have better uptime(140 days) than our redundant Cisco routers at my day job, but I admit I sometimes unnecessarily upgrade. Gary, lemme know when/if you package up DansGuardian for pfSense - it would simplify my current setup. -- Lars /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
