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Re: sub $500-750 CPE firewall for voip-centric application

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Tinka)
Fri May 6 14:02:32 2016

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From: Mark Tinka <mark.tinka@seacom.mu>
Date: Fri, 6 May 2016 20:02:18 +0200
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On 6/May/16 18:59, amuse wrote:

> One question I have is:  Is there any reason to believe that the source
> code for Sonicwall, Cisco, etc are any better than the PFSense code?  Or
> are we just able to see the PFSense code and make unfounded assumptions
> that the commercial code is in better shape?

A fair question.

And I suppose one could say that if you are unhappy with the code, make
a contribution to make it better.

We have ran them for years, and while no system is without problems, for
the amount of value you receive, I can't really complain.

Mark.

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