<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>+1 again for PfSense. Running it under KVM as a small VM to do NAT and firewalling in an environment that's constrained for ipv4 addresses.<br><br>Pretty much set and forget - very long uptimes as well. <br><br><hr id="zwchr"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255);margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;"><b>From: </b>"David Walsh" <davow@onthenet.com.au><br><b>To: </b>ausnog@lists.ausnog.net<br><b>Sent: </b>Friday, 9 August, 2013 1:29:45 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [AusNOG] Application Firewall Recommendations<br><br><div>+1 PfSense</div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On 09/08/2013, at 1:26 PM, "Joshua D'Alton" <<a href="mailto:joshua@railgun.com.au" target="_blank">joshua@railgun.com.au</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote><div dir="ltr">pfsense is pretty hard to beat as a fairly full-featured firewall, I've used it in a lot of situations that don't warrant the cost of a cisco or similar setup. Works brilliantly in a VM as well.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Alex Samad - Yieldbroker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Alex.Samad@yieldbroker.com" target="_blank">Alex.Samad@yieldbroker.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Hi<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">So what is the current industry thought on using VM firewalls. And to take that further what is the thought of using a plan OS for a firewall, thinking Linux
or BSD.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Alex<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"></span><br></p></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote><br><br>-- <br><div><span name="x"></span>Peter Tonoli < peter@medstv.unimelb.edu.au > +61-3-9288-2399 <br>IT Manager <br>The University of Melbourne - Eastern Hill Academic Centre, St. Vincent's Institute and O'Brien Institute <span name="x"></span><br></div></div></body></html>