[olug] Firewall / VPN Devices

Charles.Bird charles.bird at powerdnn.com
Wed Oct 7 21:02:37 UTC 2009


whos gonna make it?? *looks around*



On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Curtis LaMasters
<curtislamasters at gmail.com>wrote:

> No clientless SSL VPN for pfSense yet.  I'll do cartwheels if that
> becomes a package.
>
> Curtis LaMasters
> http://www.curtis-lamasters.com
> http://www.builtnetworks.com
>
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 2:17 PM, James Ringler <jringler at plainspower.com>
> wrote:
> > On 10/07/2009 12:03 PM, Obi-Wan wrote:
> >>> I ended up going with Vyatta - it's Linux based so that meant my
> >>> work-related VPNs functioned, it has a GUI to make the initial
> >>> learning stage less steep, and it has a cli much like Cisco which I
> >>> cut my networking teeth on (they're just behind the eye-teeth..)
> >>>
> >> What's the firewall configuration like on Vyatta today?  I tried the
> >> live CD a few years ago, but the text-based firewall rule configuration
> >> was a nightmare for a multi-zone setup with scores of rules.  I
> >> eventually dropped back to CentOS with iptables&  fwbuilder.  I also
> >> run other stuff like my DHCP&  DNS servers as well as forward&
> >> reverse web proxies on my firewall box.  Can I still do those things
> >> if I install Vyatta?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > It still has the cli.  but now the GUI is reworked and is back in
> > version 5.
> >
> > We're on the supported stable tree, so I don't have the GUI, but I've
> > been told that to use the GUI you still have to have an understanding of
> > the CLI structure although the gui does assist you somewhat.
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