[itdiscuss] Open Source Firewall

[Jason Hand]

Best interface i've seen on any opensource firewall and the most free useful
and easy to configure components.
 
-Jason

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On Behalf Of Justin Moore
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 2:45 PM
To: IT Discussion Forum
Subject: Re: [itdiscuss] Open Source Firewall


On 10/23/07, Kevin Brunson <HYPERLINK
"mailto:kevinb at highergroundtech.com"kevinb at highergroundtech.com> wrote: 

What was it you didn't like about the watchguard management approach?  I
agree the method for configuring rules on the older firewalls (each rule
with an incoming and outgoing section, etc.) was a little strange, but have
you looked at the Fireware interface?  Yours was probably running WFS.  The
newer firewalls have a completely re-tooled interface that is much more
intuitive and powerful.  I had finally gotten used to the old interface, but
now that I manage a bunch with Fireware I hate going back to the older WFS
models we still have out ther.

I second this notion. My old Firebox 700 was a piece. However, you couldn't
pry my new X750e out of my cold, dead fingers. The admin software for
Fireware 9 is similar in appearance, but much more powerful and flexible. 

That being said, it's not free. Someone in in the IRC chat (#citrt) recently
mentioned Untangle - they appear to have a nifty little operation going. A
brief summary (from their site):


*	Commercial-grade open source alternative to SonicWALL and WatchGuard


*	14 integrated apps - use one or all of them 

*	Runs on off-the-shelf hardware

 Check it out at HYPERLINK
"http://www.untangle.com/"http://www.untangle.com/ 

-- 
Justin Moore
Chief Tech Guru 
Crestview Baptist Church
HYPERLINK "http://www.crestviewbaptistnc.org"www.crestviewbaptistnc.org 


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