On 12/22/2009 07:22 PM, Götz Reinicke - IT Koordinator wrote:
Hi,
I followed the "Optimizing CentOS for gigabit firewall" posting and as some posters wrote pf is soo sooo ssooooo mutch faster, I was thinking to give it a try. But I'm not familier to BSD so I was looking for some tools and found "pfsense"
"pfSense is a free, open source customized distribution of FreeBSD tailored for use as a firewall and router"
Has any of the firewall guys on the list ever tested this distri?
What do you think?
pf is not a native FreeBSD thingie... you won't get the latest features, tweaks, and optimizations there.
Timo
Right now we run a iptables Shorewall system and had no problems so far, but having a "managed" firewall distri which rocks whould be an alternative.
Cheers,
Götz