[ale] OT: Firewall purchase

Christopher Fowler cfowler at outpostsentinel.com
Sun Jul 4 18:53:02 EDT 2004


http://www.pimfg.com sells a nice device that looks good.  Look under firewalls.

On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 04:15:18PM -0400, David Hamm wrote:
> 
> 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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