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Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance?


From: Alex Nderitu <nderitualex () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2011 15:32:45 +0300

On 11/09/2011 03:22 PM, Richard Kulawiec wrote:
You will find it very difficult to beat pf on OpenBSD for efficiency,
features, flexibility, robustness, and security.  Maintenance is very
easy: edit a configuration file, reload, done.

---rsk


An important feature lacking for now as far as I know is content/web filtering especially for corporates wishing to block inappropriate/time wasting content like facebook. Addition of this would place it a par with the best like Sonicwall and Fortinet.

Alex


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