[146316] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Nderitu)
Wed Nov 9 07:33:11 2011
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2011 15:32:45 +0300
From: Alex Nderitu <nderitualex@gmail.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20111109122227.GA5320@gsp.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 11/09/2011 03:22 PM, Richard Kulawiec wrote:
> You will find it very difficult to beat pf on OpenBSD for efficiency,
> features, flexibility, robustness, and security. Maintenance is very
> easy: edit a configuration file, reload, done.
>
> ---rsk
>
>
An important feature lacking for now as far as I know is content/web
filtering especially for corporates wishing to block inappropriate/time
wasting content like facebook. Addition of this would place it a par
with the best like Sonicwall and Fortinet.
Alex
