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Nik
on from the anyone-tried-picobsd? dept.
eboy writes "Gnatbox is floppy only FreeBSD based distribution. It does NAT and some pretty comprehensive firewalling. To me it looks like what LRP would like to be. Too bad the buy-in is $995!"
$995 is a bit too steep for a sw-based firewall
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questionlp
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It may be a very good solution for a small or mid-sized business who needs to have a firewall up and running without too much hassle. It's true that there are many software-based solutions out there... I'd prefer a tightened hardware-based firewall solution if security is the biggest issue (which it is for many companies, including the one I work for).
But for $995, many people would rather piece together a 486/33 machine with 16MB of RAM and two ISA network cards...place Open/FreeBSD and close out the ports that aren't needed and lock it down tight... heck... I might actually do that:)
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It may be a very good solution for a small or mid-sized business who needs to have a firewall up and running without too much hassle. It's true that there are many software-based solutions out there... I'd prefer a tightened hardware-based firewall solution if security is the biggest issue (which it is for many companies, including the one I work for).
:)
But for $995, many people would rather piece together a 486/33 machine with 16MB of RAM and two ISA network cards...place Open/FreeBSD and close out the ports that aren't needed and lock it down tight... heck... I might actually do that