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djy

djy

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anyone got any reccomendations on a good firewall. it will need VPN support.
its for a college project.
any help would be great:good:
 
Well any configurable firewall can be set up to allow for VPN connections. I would recommend smooth wall or sonic wall since they are highly configurable. You could get into the Cisco Pix stuff but eh, that is a waste. You can convert an old PC box with a smooth wall linux distro into a free and powerful firewall.
 
tlarkin said:
Well any configurable firewall can be set up to allow for VPN connections. I would recommend smooth wall or sonic wall since they are highly configurable. You could get into the Cisco Pix stuff but eh, that is a waste. You can convert an old PC box with a smooth wall linux distro into a free and powerful firewall.
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cheers that is an option i thought of but i need to show alternatives and justify my reason for picking one over the other.
i was initially going to use smoothwall but it doesnt log any details or have any anti virus/spam filtering? which the other two options provide.
is there something i should run along side smoothwall?

this may not make sense as its al new to me:confused:

the three firewalls i have selected.
smoothwall express 3.0

Trustix Enterprise Firewall

Kiero WinRoute Firewall 6
 
Second on Smoothwall. I believe you can configure it for virus/spam filtering with some add-ons.

Are you looking for a standalone hardware solution? Or just software to run on an existing system?
 
djy said:
cheers that is an option i thought of but i need to show alternatives and justify my reason for picking one over the other.
i was initially going to use smoothwall but it doesnt log any details or have any anti virus/spam filtering? which the other two options provide.
is there something i should run along side smoothwall?

this may not make sense as its al new to me:confused:

the three firewalls i have selected.
smoothwall express 3.0

Trustix Enterprise Firewall

Kiero WinRoute Firewall 6
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Softwall is a Linux based distro you can add packages to it and yes it will keep log files. You probably were booting off the live CD which is read only file system so it can't write log files. Actually install it on a machine and test it.
 
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