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

David Filion david at filiontech.com
Thu Dec 18 08:02:10 EST 2008


Nick Sklav wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 16:46 -0500, David Filion wrote:
>
>
> I will mention it one more time. Since no firewall does what you want
> and bridging is really all you are looking to do, Then setup shorewall
> firewall on a linux based system it does bridging. You can also do
> bridging with PF. The advantage to Freebsd is that the base system is
> tiny simple to update with freebsd-update and no add-on packages are
> required. The advantage with the linux version is well you have a good
> understanding and the learning curve is next to zero for you.
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We run iptables/shorewall now.  iptables doesn't have a synproxy.


David


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