[Sussex] Firewall appliance recomendations

[Colin Tuckley]

Ronan Chilvers wrote:

> I'm looking at pfSense (based on OpenBSD I believe) at the moment to run
> on it, but I would guess that linux would too - the hardware seems quite
> similar to the soekris boards.
> 
> Any thoughts?

I've been using pfSense on an ancient PC (200MHx PII with 160Mb RAM) since
the T-storm a couple of weeks ago fried my router.

It works, it doesn't require too much in the way of hardware power. It is
however still in the early days of development, it's at 1.0rc2 atm.

There are a few rough edges but for my purposes, a home lan on a cable modem
connection, it works well.

Colin

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