Re: Best firewall applience

[Daniel Radetic <drade () msv-sustavi hr>]

Hello there Paul,

In my opinion you could give soekris + pfsense a
try, the whole story shouldn't cost you more than 300$ and some time.

Ref.:
http://www.soekris.com
http://www.pfsense.com

Kind regards,
Daniel Radetic



On 01/14/2010 10:12 AM, Paul.Simons () thomsonreuters com wrote:
> Hum... OK lots of suggestions - Thanks.
>
> So if I go down the do-it-yourself path I would like to find the most
> unobtrusive 'box' to build my own UTM system on.
>
> I don't have a problem building one (old guy talking here 30+ years
> experience) but it MUST BE - small, quiet, low power and reliable (Gbit
> interfaces would be nice-to-have).
>
> I don't think an 'old' PC with numerous NICs would fall into these
> categories. Which begs the next question;
>
>         What hardware would be suitable for my needs?
>
> I don't mind spending to get the 'right' system so it could be anything
> (old or new.
>
> In answer to the various other questions posed...
>
> I am using a Sofaware appliance (embedded Check Point) - nice because it
> is al-in-one box - but as I said too expensive and their licensing
> policy sucks (always has - but they are not going to change so I am).
>
> I need a firewall at home because I run a WEB server, media server,
> OS-X, XP, BSD, etc and I have two teenage boys trying to get to all
> sorts of sites and download stuff I don't want them to ;-) so I would
> like to restrict access by time (when they have done their homework or
> at weekends or time to sleep) and sites (free surfing for some time -
> only educational sites at others)
>
> Anybody who has kids should be doing this sort of thing - suppliers are
> starting to wake up to this but not many yet
>
> Thanks
> Paul
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