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I'm looking for the best linux firewalls in general, i've been using ISA of microsoft but it cost you a lot, googling on it and it show up , IPcop, smoothwall, IPtable, unstrangle, shorewall, ClearOS, Monowall, etc., but it seems that old forum. Anybody can give me, a hints or link..
Its not actually Linux its freebsd but pfsense is a great firewall. I have been using a cluster of these in production for a few years now and never had a problem.
pfSense is indeed a great firewall, I've been using it for a little under a year now.
However, because pfSense is based on FreeBSD there is no support for 802.11n and since I would like to use an Atheros based wifi-card in master mode with 802.11n I am looking for a Linux based alternative.
Google already showed lots of alternatives, but I haven't been able to find anything that is (more or less) identical to pfSense. With identical I'm referring to the features (using add-on packages for example) and the way it can be configured. pfSense's webinterface is really easy to use, things are easy to find and that's how I like it.
Last edited by bartgrefte; 08-05-2011 at 11:37 AM.
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