[MLUG] [ot] Looking for high performance open source firewall

[Nicholas Accad]

I don't think you will find anything in Linux for that, all Linux
firewalls are based on IPTables.
Why not use FreeBSD?

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 9:14 AM, David Filion <david at filiontech.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Hi everyone, I'm currently in search of a high performance open source
> firewall.  It must be a bridging firewall (nat is not an option) and be
> able to handle a 50+Mb syn attack.  Any suggestions?  I know iptables
> can handle the 50Mb, but I need something to deal with the invalid syns,
> aka a syn proxy.   *BSD seems to have implemented it into a  released
> kernel but I could not find anything for Linux (no mention of syn
> cookies please :-).
>
> I've been playing with a Checkpoint firewall that does it, but I'd love
> to replace it with an open source solution.
>
> Any pointers/links/suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
>
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