Thank you Chris and Christian. So if that the case then will have to purchase the avast Internet anti virus solution for each host on the LAN as it will automatically updates once they are connected to the internet.
Cheers Joseph. On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Christian Veith <c...@veith-info.org> wrote: > Hi Joseph, > > in General it's not possible with pfsense. As Chris mentioned most > Solutions will require a windows server machine for delivering updates to > the Clients. > > Some Antivirus Solutions, such as Eset NOD32, could be configured to use an > alternate http server for getting it's updates. It's possible to setup a > squid package installation on the pfsense box and use it as a caching proxy. > The signatures will be downloaded only once and then delivered from Cache. > > Other Products like Symantec Enterprise Protection offer the possibility of > "Global Update Provider" Clients. These provide updates by peer to peer like > functions, electing one Client as the bridgehead for signature updates. > > > regards > > Christian > > > > Am 02.06.2011 02:24, schrieb Joseph Rotan: > > Hi, >> >> I would like to confirm if pfsense can act as a centralized PC to update >> anti-virus to multiple host PC's connected on the same LAN. >> >> In our setup we have ADSL , Lease-line and E1 connections that are used as >> a means of internet connectivity to our pfsense WAN interface whereas the >> LAN interface connect to HUB that redistribute connection to multiple host >> PC's. >> >> As a means of cutting down costs to purchase each licenses for each hosts >> our anti-virus supplier has provided us a solution with one exchange server >> or PC to many connected clients on a network, therefore the pfsense machine >> will automatically extract updates from the antivirus remote server and >> pfsense will redistribute it to the connected clients on a network. >> >> >> Thanks >> >> Joseph. >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com > For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com > > Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org > >
