[olug] Untangle firewall

James Ringler jringler at plainspower.com
Wed Jul 29 14:40:05 UTC 2009


Dan Linder wrote:
> Patrick,
>
> Thanks for the pointer to pfSense.  It's running quite well and the
> GUI interface is pretty nice.  The only downfall that I have run
> across -- and it's a big one for me -- is that it only allows a single
> PPTP VPN connection at a time.  (See
> http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,1803.0.html - they mention
> the "frickin" package, but the package doesn't seem to work on my
> system, and the URL provided doesn't mention the package anymore...)
>
> Since my past Linux firewalls have handled multiple PPTP tunnels fine,
> is there a good Linux firewall distribution that anyone can recommend?
>  Maybe I'll try to install Ubuntu server 9.04 with one of the firewall
> packages...
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Dan
>
>   



Check out Vyatta..    http://www.vyatta.org

The 5.0 version has a gui but you'll still have a little learning curve 
to use it.  



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