[ale] Custom or Pfsense

[Brandon Colbert]

Faster because it has all the tools I need right there. Plus it has a cute
web interface. LOL   I have decided to go with Pfsense.


Thanks all.

2008/5/9 Michael H. Warfield <mhw at wittsend.com>:

>
> On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 14:33 -0400, Brandon Colbert wrote:
> > All,
>
> > I am building the VPN network for my company. I am trying to figure
> > out if I should use Pfsense or build my own off: CentOS5, iptables,
> > OpenVPN, VLANs, and etc. I do like the option of adding whatever
> > application I need.
>
> > Pfsense will be a faster deployment!
>
>         Ok...  Pfsense is the FreeBSD / pf filter based firewall.  What
> kind of
> VPN are you going to use, then?  IPsec based?
>
>        I don't quite see where Pfsense would be any faster to deploy than
> say
> a CentOS system with IPSec.
>
>        At one time, OpenVPN use to be able to claim it was simpler to
> deploy
> than IPSec but IPSec has gotten vastly easier, with certificates and
> keys, and OpenVPN has gotten significantly more complicated (try making
> heads or tails or those scripts for pushing routes and addresses).
>
>        IPSec certainly makes a lot of sense.  All of that, Pfsense,
> CentOS,
> Fedora, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, etc, etc, etc, should all interoperate and be
> relatively simple to deploy.  Now, FreeBSD vs Linux and pf filter vs
> iptable, that may be more to what your taste is.  Pfsense may have some
> fancy deployment tools that may make it better than CentOS or Fedora or
> monowall.  Why do YOU feel it will be faster?
>
> > ?
>
>        Mike
> --
> Michael H. Warfield (AI4NB) | (770) 985-6132 |  mhw at WittsEnd.com
>   /\/\|=mhw=|\/\/          | (678) 463-0932 |
> http://www.wittsend.com/mhw/
>   NIC whois: MHW9          | An optimist believes we live in the best of
> all
>  PGP Key: 0xDF1DD471        | possible worlds.  A pessimist is sure of it!
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Ale mailing list
> Ale at ale.org
> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mail.ale.org/pipermail/ale/attachments/20080512/55a59d78/attachment.html