On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Miguel Medalha <miguelmedalha at sapo.pt>wrote: > > pfsense for a newbie? > > > > A CentOS-like firewall would be ClearOS (formerly Clarkconnect) and > again would reduce the number of simultaneously-learned layers to wade > through. While it works very well, it is yet another layer and difference > to learn, and when learning is is really good to not overload the number of > layers to learn at once. IMHO, YMMV, etc. > > > > Since I have done cisco IOS stuff for a decade and a half, now, I'd > recommend Vyatta over pfsense, but, there again, it is yet another, > different, layer to learn that *will* overwhelm a newbie. > > Isn't Vyatta a comercial product? I suppose that it wouldn't fit a > newbie either... > > Vyatta has an open source version as well. The feature list is huge and they provide nice PDF documents with configuration examples. I am using Vyatta at five locations. http://vyatta.org/ Ryan