Re: Firewall OS choice

[Richard Ibbotson <richard.ibbotson%googlemail.com@localhost>]

> On 17 Jul 2010 at 19:19, Michael T. Davis wrote:
> >     We have an ancient firewall installed in one area running
> >     OpenBSD 2.8
> > 
> > and IPFilter v3.3.18.  It's hardware is configured as an
> > "appliance," so updating the software isn't all that
> > straightforward (to put it nicely).  I am contemplating
> > upgrading the hardware, and switching to a BSD flavor that
> > continues to provide built-in support for IPFilter.  Besides
> > NetBSD, I'm also considering FreeBSD.  I realize the responses
> > here will be somewhat biased (;-), but is NetBSD a good choice
> > for this application, esp. compared to FreeBSD (or vice versa)?

M0n0wall ?  .....

http://m0n0.ch/wall/

Used in a lot of places...

http://m0n0.ch/wall/quotes.php

-- 
Richard
http://www.sheflug.org.uk