such thing as a firewall based on Alix platform requires at least few days of work for a guy on a salary with nothing else to do :)
If you start counting the cost of worktime to have it up and running, probably any off-the-shelf firewall would be much more affordable.
----- Original Message ----
From:
Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de>
To: swinog@swinog.ch
Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2008 3:39:54 PM
Subject: Re: [swinog] VDSL/Zyxel P2802 HWL not 'strong' enough for a small company LAN?
Manuel
Krummenacher
schrieb:
>
I
personally
would
buy
an
Alix
board
from
pcengines.ch
(costs
about
CHF
>
150
with
3
LAN
interfaces),
install
pfSense
on
it,
switch
the
Zyxel
to
>
bridge
mode
and
be
happy.
;-)
With
the
Alix,
you
would
also
gain
extra
>
benefits
like
complex
packet
filter
rules,
traffic
shaping,
traffic
graphs
>
etc.
(see
pfsense.com
for
full
feature
list).
>
Seconded.
I've
got
a
previous-generation
WRAP
board
with
pfSense
(just
upgraded
to
the
recently
released
1.2).
It
should
be
noted
that
pfSense
also
does
IPSEC
and
OpenVPN
"SSL-VPN"
and
a
host
of
other
things.
I'm
not
sure
how
much
bandwidth
the
Alix-boards
can
shuffle,
but
my
WRAP
is
supposed
to
max
out
somewhere
in
the
30MBit
range.
You
can
also
install
it
on
an
old
PC
and
temporary
replace
the
Zyxel,
to
get
some
idea
about
the
current
traffic
pattern.
Rainer
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