[189138] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: sub $500-750 CPE firewall for voip-centric application
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aris Lambrianidis)
Fri May 6 14:06:01 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Fri, 06 May 2016 20:05:34 +0200
From: Aris Lambrianidis <effulgence@gmail.com>
To: amuse <nanog-amuse@foofus.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAH9HpnxcWu0-vUXOhM9K=2y6Y0jXSFwONmRvyrVtRcBNRONCPg@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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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?
Perhaps not. In fact, probably not, judging by the apparent lack of
audit processes for say,
OpenSSL libraries re-used in commercial products.
It still doesn't detract from the value of what people are aware of, in
this case,
pfSense code quality.
Aris
