[ale] OT: Firewall purchase

[David Hamm]

Thanks for the links and suggestions but this firewall is for a client and 
building a custom firewall will not be price competitive;  Especially if you 
consider the ease of use available for $100 from Netgear and D-Link.
   


On Sunday 04 July 2004 03:40 pm, Dow Hurst wrote:
> David Hamm wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > Thanks.
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> Look at building it yourself using Slackware, Bob Toxen's second edition
> of his book, and a Epia based fanless supersmall machine with dual
> builtin NICs.  His book has drop in iptables rules that are excellent.
> Once you get that far then going thru the IPSEC Howto is not too
> difficult.  Just involves a kernel module compile and insertion.
>
>
>
> Links:
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/VPN-Masquerade-HOWTO.html#toc3
> http://www.impsec.org/linux/masquerade/ip_masq_vpn.html
> http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/11/Big_Scary_Daemons.html (this
> is one idea)
>
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