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Router/gateway/firewall in a virtual infrastructure

Oct 30, 2007 2:36 AM

Click to view Zxinn's profile Novice Zxinn 10 posts since
May 30, 2007
I'm looking at possible candidates to act as a router/gateway/firewall in my planned virtual infrastructure. I will have a physical LAN on one side, the internet on the other, and internally a sort of DMZ for my server VMs. (See attached illustration if you don't get it. ;) )

I have looked at the following so far:
m0n0wall
pfSense
SmoothWall Express

Since I have been having issues with network performance in FreeBSD 6.2 I'm somewhat dubious towards m0n0wall and pfSense, but I think their base is a FreeBSD pre-6.2 so it might be ok using the vmxnet device for good performance. But my favorite so far has been SmoothWall, however I had some trouble with its DNS server/proxy.

What do you use or recommend, and what makes it good?

/Zxinn
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Reply Re: Router/gateway/firewall in a virtual infrastructure Oct 30, 2007 5:58 AM
Click to view saxa's profile Master saxa 1,338 posts since
Jun 2, 2006
I would take IPCop.
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