[Gllug] Security from scratch or just stick with Astaro?

[John Edwards]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 08:30:51PM +0100, Justin Perreault wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 16:13 +0100, John Edwards wrote:
>> Am I right in assuming that this is a hand-crafted solution rather
>> than an off-the-shelf system such as the Astaro firewall that the
>> original poster had used?
>> 
>> In another email you say "running firewalls on a VM is not uncommon".
>> I would be interested to learn about any commercial or open source
>> systems that use them.
> 
> Figured I should clarify a bit. Astaro will give you a VM image as a
> standard download if you want it.
> 
> It's the reason I started thinking about the feasibility of using it.

But is their VMWare image supposed to be run as a production firewall
or is just for evaluation purposes?


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