On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Rudi Ahlers <rudiahlers at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm looking for a (preferably free) alternative to SME / Clark Connect. > > I basically need the following: > - firewall > - nat > - VPN > - bandwidth limiting / monitoring > - email (SMTP / POP3 / IMAP) & groupware > - file & printer sharing > - RAID support > - if possible fail-over / high availability support. > > I need to support about 15 - 30 (some part time) students, so I would > like to keep the costs low. If it's free, so much better. SME works > for most of the stuff, but it still runs on CentOS 4, and I'd prefer > to use 5. > > Any recommendations? > > -- > > Kind Regards > Rudi Ahlers > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Pfsense(FreeBSD based) can be an alternative, although it doesn't support email/groupware out of the box...but it doesn't mean that it can't be done. http://www.pfsense.org I've been running it on a Dell Optiplex PIII for almost 2 years without any issue using NAT, Port Fowarding, Dual WAN(Cable and ADSL), Captive portal, DNS Server, Snort, etc. hope it helps. -- "It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion." "Todo el desorden del mundo proviene de las profesiones mal o mediocremente servidas" -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090415/d2e13ae9/attachment-0004.html>