[BlueOnyx:04836] Re: Firewall for Datacenter

[Jon McCauley]

Gerald Waugh wrote:
> 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
>   
I thought it could be configured to not use NAT, but they would know for 
sure ;)


Best Regards, Jon McCauley


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