Re: Choosing a firewall with Snort

[Pratik Narang <pratik.cse.bits () gmail com>]

Thanks Kevin. Just to make it clear - I was talking of suggestions for
Firewalls/UTm systems which gel well with Snort. Having Snort inbuilt is
not a requirement.

On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Kevin Ross <kevross33 () googlemail com>wrote:

> Do you mean one which includes snort built in or as an easy to install
> package? If so I recommend pfsense, it isn't IPS in terms of it will drop
> packets inline but it will block the attacker but make sure you tune it
> (for some reason for the time being though during updates it doesn't
> remember what specific rules you have disabled so run it a while, disable
> and enable rulle categories and specific rules giving you bother use the
> threshold.conf screen). It is an excellent firewall though and you can do
> things like geoip blocking with pfblocker, VPNs, excellent firewall rule
> flexibility and advanced features and more (including proxy packages). It
> has certainly been great for me in a home environment although I am not
> sure in a work environment as I work in a very large organization and we
> use appliance based firewalls.
>
> Hope that helps you. Other options are smoothwall (updates seemed to stop
> when I moved from it to pfsense), Astaro and there will be others too.
>
> Kev
>
> On 26 September 2012 07:33, Pratik Narang <pratik.cse.bits () gmail com>wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Any recommendations for Open source Firewall/UTM solutions which go well
> > with Snort IPS ?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
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