[Sussex] Firewall appliance recomendations

[Colin Tuckley]

Ronan Chilvers wrote:

> So that would be an ethernet connection from a cable modem into your
> firewall machine?

Yes, it's actually from a Cable-TV STB rather than a cable-modem, but they
are the same as far as the Firewall/Router is concerned.

One of the nice things about pfSense is that it's runnable from the CD, so
you could try it on your current hardware. Also if you put a blank floppy
disk in the drive before booting then you will get the option to save your
config to it. After that any reboot will read the config and if you do an
install it also takes that config as a start point.

pfSense seems to support USB quite well, it might be worth asking on their
support list if they support ADSL USB modems, possibly via a plug-in or
package.

Colin

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