[ale] OT: Firewall purchase

[Dow Hurst]

Thomas Holmquist wrote:

>On Sunday 04 July 2004 15:40, Dow Hurst wrote:
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>>I'm looking for a firewall that supports IPSEC for VPN and OSPF.
>>Netgear has
>>stuff I found attractive but with no OSPF support. Moving parts (ie
>>fans and
>>disks ), and user licensing are out. Anyone have any suggestions?
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>I would recommend m0n0wall ( http://www.m0n0.ch/wall/ ) running on a Soekris 
>Board ( http://www.soekris.com/ ). Soekris' are made just to be networking 
>devices, and have handy dandy features like a Hardware Watchdog, PoE, Serial 
>out (for display) and a CF card slot built in.
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Would you get the speed you need out of the Soekris devices for VPN work 
though?  If it was just a pass thru then it wouldn't matter but if not 
then would it be fast enough?
Dow