On 23:52, Tue 13 Oct 09, Hans Witvliet wrote: > On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 14:42 -0500, Karl Fife wrote: > > I think one of the very best options is pfSense. Free Open-source, > > but it's BSD based, rather than LINUX based. As such it has a lower > > risk of external exploits. The user-interface makes it incredibly > > simple to set up and maintain. There is an embedded versions of it > > available to run on affordable/reliable solid-state, diskless, fanless > > Soekris/PCEngines embedded system boards. > > > > It's incredibly powerful, and It's ROCK SOLID. I find the traffic > > shaping engine to work without a hitch. PFSense can do anything you > > want including VPN (PPTP, IPSec, OpenVPN), failover (Multi-WAN), > > IDS/IPS (snort) > > > > The NEWEST embedded version 1.2.3 rc3 (1.2.3-release is very close) > > can run the sipproxd package as well as many other packages that > > previously required the FULL version. Goodbye one-way audio! :-) > > > > -Karl > > pfsense with FreeBSD is a very powerfull combination, period. > > However, it is compared with a 64-character password from a generator. > Darn-difficult to use, and often written on a post-it and a plague for > the help-desk (and thus a security risc in itself). > > If you are familiar with BSD, good, fine. If not you probably are not > aware that you're exposing yourself somewhere (if you got it working > anyway).
A good *NIX admin will only need like 2 or 3 hours to get over it and understand how BSD works when they work with linux. That's how things work with the admins I have met. In the end they all choose for the elegance and clean code and good documentation of BSD before linux. -- Michiel van Baak [email protected] http://michiel.vanbaak.eu GnuPG key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x71C946BD "Why is it drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?" _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2009 - October 13 - 15 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
