Re: which firewall product?

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

Aren't there appliance versions that are just iptables/linux under the hood?

For example, IPCop, IPFire, Smoothwall, Untangle, and Vyatta should fit the bill.

Owen

On Jul 30, 2013, at 13:00 , William Herrin <bill () herrin us> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I'm trying to identify a firewall appliance for one of my customers.
> The wrinkle is: it has to be able to inspect packets inside an IPIP
> tunnel and accept/reject based on IP address, TCP port number and
> standard things like that. On the packet carried *inside* the IPIP
> tunnel packet.
>
>
> > From what I can tell, the Cisco ASA can't do this.
>
> Linux iptables can (with the u32 match module) but the customer wants
> an appliance, not a server.
>
> What appliances do you know of that can do this? Is there a different
> Cisco box? A Juniper firewall? Anything else?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Bill Herrin
>
>
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