What is everyone using for a firewall?
I'm currently using www.astaro.com but their recent releases have soured me on ASL as a practical solution on my hardware (1.2MHz Athlon, 30G, and 256M). I only have 4 computers going through the firewall wall but it's consistently at 50% cpu load. There is very little network traffic (<10k bits per second on the wan connection, < 40k bits per second between other internal lans (I have 4 internal lans and a wan))
Basically I'm using it for:
packet filtering, masq, port forwarding, IDS, dns proxy (only if my internal DNS servers have failed) smtp proxy smtp virus protection smtp spam protection http proxy (caching) http virus protection http url monitoring (via Cobain) the firewall also monitors a bunch of statistics, etc.
I'm looking for something that is installed, configured and runs. I don't want to be tweaking this parameter of postfix, that parameter of the smtp virus protection, etc. I want something that just works that I don't need to play with except for new rules, etc.
I'll pay a reasonable price for a package that I can test to verify suitable performance (I'm not a commercial operation, this is just for my toys).
At the moment, I'm looking at Gibraltar. But the community seems small. I haven't downloaded it yet but I'm considering it an option for this round of firewall evaluation. Any other suggestions for inclusion?
BTW, anything like smoothwall that allows wide open outbound connections and doesn't support a box with 5 network cards off the CD is not a viable candidate.
Thanks much all,
.dn
I have been following the m0n0wall mailinglist for a few weeks now. Looks like a very nice piece of work. I don't believe it has AV or IDS built in.
You might look at a gateway "appliance" for some of the extra tasks and leave the firewall to being a firewall.
Might switch to it from freesco.
ref. www.m0n0.ch www.freesco.org
-----Original Message----- From: centos-admin@caosity.org [mailto:centos-admin@caosity.org]On Behalf Of donavan nelson Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 12:52 PM To: centos@caosity.org Subject: [Centos] OT: firewalls
What is everyone using for a firewall?
I'm currently using www.astaro.com but their recent releases have soured me on ASL as a practical solution on my hardware (1.2MHz Athlon, 30G, and 256M). I only have 4 computers going through the firewall wall but it's consistently at 50% cpu load. There is very little network traffic (<10k bits per second on the wan connection, < 40k bits per second between other internal lans (I have 4 internal lans and a wan))
Basically I'm using it for:
packet filtering, masq, port forwarding, IDS, dns proxy (only if my internal DNS servers have failed) smtp proxy smtp virus protection smtp spam protection http proxy (caching) http virus protection http url monitoring (via Cobain) the firewall also monitors a bunch of statistics, etc.
I'm looking for something that is installed, configured and runs. I don't want to be tweaking this parameter of postfix, that parameter of the smtp virus protection, etc. I want something that just works that I don't need to play with except for new rules, etc.
I'll pay a reasonable price for a package that I can test to verify suitable performance (I'm not a commercial operation, this is just for my toys).
At the moment, I'm looking at Gibraltar. But the community seems small. I haven't downloaded it yet but I'm considering it an option for this round of firewall evaluation. Any other suggestions for inclusion?
BTW, anything like smoothwall that allows wide open outbound connections and doesn't support a box with 5 network cards off the CD is not a viable candidate.
Thanks much all,
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I use Astaro version 4/5. I am reverted back to V4 as V5 is still a beta release as far as i am concerned. V5 is a RAM pig..you can get your licenses reverted back to v4(if you did not archive your license file) and that is what i would do..:) I have also deployed smoothwall at a client's location and it is very quick..of course it is only a firewall/proxy and does not do a/v or spam protection. The community around smoothie is quite active and there are tons of add-ons for it.
William
donavan nelson wrote:
What is everyone using for a firewall?
I'm currently using www.astaro.com but their recent releases have soured me on ASL as a practical solution on my hardware (1.2MHz Athlon, 30G, and 256M). I only have 4 computers going through the firewall wall but it's consistently at 50% cpu load. There is very little network traffic (<10k bits per second on the wan connection, < 40k bits per second between other internal lans (I have 4 internal lans and a wan))
Basically I'm using it for:
packet filtering, masq, port forwarding, IDS, dns proxy (only if my internal DNS servers have failed) smtp proxy smtp virus protection smtp spam protection http proxy (caching) http virus protection http url monitoring (via Cobain) the firewall also monitors a bunch of statistics, etc.
I'm looking for something that is installed, configured and runs. I don't want to be tweaking this parameter of postfix, that parameter of the smtp virus protection, etc. I want something that just works that I don't need to play with except for new rules, etc.
I'll pay a reasonable price for a package that I can test to verify suitable performance (I'm not a commercial operation, this is just for my toys).
At the moment, I'm looking at Gibraltar. But the community seems small. I haven't downloaded it yet but I'm considering it an option for this round of firewall evaluation. Any other suggestions for inclusion?
BTW, anything like smoothwall that allows wide open outbound connections and doesn't support a box with 5 network cards off the CD is not a viable candidate.
Thanks much all,
.dn _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@caosity.org http://www.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 11:52:28 -0500, donavan nelson donavan@4wx.net wrote:
What is everyone using for a firewall?
I doubt this will satisfy your needs, but I've been very happy with floppyfw: http://www.zelow.no/floppyfw/ We have been using it for our clusters and labs for years.
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