[AusNOG] Gateway Router firewall

[Joseph Goldman]

Is there features those tech dont allow for?

For x86 boxes, not necessarily free but you do have VyOS and RouterOS, 
they close it down a bit more through their own management interfaces 
(CLI, GUI etc) but will have the standard protocols installed and ready 
to go, just got to pump in your environment specifics.

  There's also the baked in Linux OS's like smoothwall and others I 
believe, but from memory they dont talk the more complex routing 
protocols, more built for just DHCP/PPP WAN with NAT and basic routing.

If you dont want something like that then your best to stick with what 
you know, and just upgrade the hardware behind it if you are looking for 
more power.

Thanks,
Joe

On 2017-01-10 11:55 AM, Glenn Hocking wrote:
> Hi All
>
> For many years been using hand rolled router/firewall boxes for my 
> hosting network gateways. Time for an upgrade but still want the 
> flexibility of Linux based systems. Just wondering what others like in 
> this area and recommend as assume there should be some good hardened 
> preconfigured systems available now. Prefer open source Linux and free.
>
> What I currently use is,
>
> OS: Debian Linux
> BGP: quagga
> Firewall: iptables
> Load balancing and HA: ipvsadm + perl
> Monitoring: ipt_netflow + nfsen
>
> Cheers
>