Firewall Opinion: Applicance or Linux?

[Woodie]

Count one vote for SmoothWall (FW on Linux). 20MB bootable CD image, basic functionality up in <20 minutes.

Has VPN capability, caching proxy, IDS, DNS, DHCP, supports a DMZ segment, port forwarding, etc..

Keep in mind that the freeware version is a NATting FW, so only works with a single external IP address.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: Woodie
Count one vote for SmoothWall (FW on Linux). 20MB bootable CD image, basic functionality up in <20 minutes.

Has VPN capability, caching proxy, IDS, DNS, DHCP, supports a DMZ segment, port forwarding, etc..

Keep in mind that the freeware version is a NATting FW, so only works with a single external IP address.

Does it have a bandwidth throttler / priority queuer? I might give that a shot (still like my OpenBSD setup though)

- M4H

 

[Woodie]

On smoothwall, no bandwidth throttler that I'm aware of. They would probably include that kind of functionality in the commercial version but not the GPL version.

That said, it's still a Linux box, so you could try and add that kind of functionality in.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: Woodie
Count one vote for SmoothWall (FW on Linux). 20MB bootable CD image, basic functionality up in <20 minutes.

Has VPN capability, caching proxy, IDS, DNS, DHCP, supports a DMZ segment, port forwarding, etc..

Keep in mind that the freeware version is a NATting FW, so only works with a single external IP address.

Does it have a bandwidth throttler / priority queuer? I might give that a shot (still like my OpenBSD setup though)

- M4H

OpenBSD has ALTQ.