Re: Suggestions for Open Source Internet Security Gateway Distro/Product

[Robin Wood <robin () digininja org>]

pfSense running on an Alix board. If you put a wifi card in one you can run
it as your AP as well but watch out that because it is based on BSD at the
moment it is limited to 802.11abg and not n.

Robin

On 22 April 2013 21:08, Jon Molesa <rjmolesa () consoltec net> wrote:

> +1
>
> Jon Molesa
> On Apr 22, 2013 3:00 PM, "Matt Nels" <mattnels () gmail com> wrote:
>
> > Not Debian/Ubuntu, but you should add pfSense to your list.
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Jason Drury <druryjason () yahoo com>wrote:
> >
> > > Folks,
> > >
> > > I would like to setup an Internet security box for my home network for
> > > firewalling, dhcp, IDS, web filtering, and possibly VPN. It has been a long
> > > time since I've looked at the various Linux security distros that do this
> > > (I think Astaro Security was the best choice back then).
> > >
> > > I did a few searches and it seems like there are a LOT of
> > > distros/products available now.
> > >
> > > Here are just a few I came across:
> > >
> > > 1. Untangle - http://www.untangle.com/
> > > 2. Vyatta - http://www.vyatta.org/
> > > 3. Zentyal - http://www.zentyal.org/
> > > 4. Sophos UTM (formley Astaro) -
> > > http://www.sophos.com/en-us/products/free-tools/sophos-utm-home-edition.aspx
> > > 5. Engarde Linux - http://www.engardelinux.org/
> > > 6. Smoothwall - http://www.smoothwall.org/
> > > 7. ClearOS - http://www.clearfoundation.com/Software/overview.html
> > >
> > > I do not care if it is gui or cli based. I would prefer something based
> > > on Debian/Ubuntu, but not absolutely necessary.
> > >
> > > Does anyone have any experience with the above distros/products or could
> > > you recommend something else you like?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Jason
> > >
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