Firewall Appliance for Ent Architecture testing

[MarkMaiden]

I am looking for your advice and guidance. I have had a quick look around, and m0n0wall came up, but I have not had an opportunity to evaluate it.

I would like to be able to have a VM (or several) as a firewall that I can use to block/filter/open ports/IP Addresses between tiers/VLANs (4 of - Enterprise/Web/App/Database) on a virtual infrastructure. I am not looking for Spam or AV blocking. It would be nice to be able to create/monitor some logs to use for fault finding?

Looking forward to your comments.

Regards, Mark

[brugh]

i say monowall check out http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/150. it can do all the things you want and is fast and easy to configure. logging is basic but enough to find problems (it also supports syslogging).