[BlueOnyx:04820] Re: Firewall for Datacenter

[Gerald Waugh]

On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 15:12 -0400, Jon McCauley wrote:
> Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet wrote:
> > Gerald Waugh wrote:
> >   
> >> Please excuse the crosspost
> >>
> >> We have a number of servers on a Class C network in a data center and
> >> would like to install a Linux firewall.
> >>
> >> I have looked at using bridged firewall, as we do not need/want NAT.
> >> So far mixed results and can't seem to find one that includes a GUI.
> >>
> >> Any suggestions?
> >>     
> >
> > Hi Gerald,
> > This doesn't come from my personal experience, but from what customers 
> > in our datacenter have passed on to me:
> >
> > 1: Cisco ASA (or older PIX)
> > Sometimes you can find bargains on ebay
> > 2: Sonicwall
> > 3: RouterOS from MikroTik RouterBoard 
> > http://www.mikrotik.com/software.html#
> > 4: Firewall Builder for iptables
> > http://www.fwbuilder.org/
> >
> > HTH!
> Also to note Smoothwall http://www.smoothwall.org/
> 
I looked hard at smoothwall even talked to them about the commercial
version but when I wanted to use it without NAT, they said no.

Gerald