So, at work my boss and others are wanting to work from home and a few other things. Our current firewall doesn't have VPN capability. (unless we pay £££ for an update/license)
The current firewall is from
GTA, it essentially is a pc in a custom rackmount case with freebsd and some nice configuration utils etc. (see
here for a demo config)
I'm mulling over what to do, here's as I see it my options.
Go with GTA or another commercial firewall vendor and pay quite a bit of money.. OR buy a rackmount case and server mobo, a bunch of low profile server nics and stick something like IPCop on it or brave it with openbsd.
The extra NICs are for a dmz for the webserver and a planned ftp server.
Does anyone have experience with doing something like this? Replacing their works firewall with something like IPCop?
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I wish there was a firewall distro that had the flexibility of ipcop, endian etc that used openbsd as its base. I don't like the prospect of having to configure openbsd from the ground up. (even if all I want to do is check it out, although I did have a quick play around of openbsd in vmware a while back)
Curious, I just had a look at Endian and it's based on IPCop. What are the differences? (also queued it up to download, gonna install it in a virtual machine anyway)
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I've got a spare copy of Portal, if anyone wants it message me.
I run the Firebox X Core X1250e here and it is a fantastic device. VPN, Firewall, HTTP Proxy, AV/AS.
As far as I can tell Endian is just IPCop++ really. The endian guys took the base code and just made it a whole bunch easier to use and added useful things like greylisting, etc.