FreeBSD based 'Floppy Firewall'

eboy writes "Gnatbox is floppy only FreeBSD based distribution. It does NAT and some pretty comprehensive firewalling. To me it looks like what LRP would like to be. Too bad the buy-in is $995!"

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Re:$995 is a bit too steep for a sw-based firewall

[Mark Pitman]

$995 is cheap compared to some of the more prominent packages like Checkpoint's Firewall-1, NAI's Gauntlet or Raptor's Eagle. They can end up costing you around $15,000 just for the software alone!

Re:$995 is a bit too steep for a sw-based firewall

[Bishop]

Ofcourse you do get more from those big packages. More proxies, more auth methods, more filter methods, and in the case of FW-1 more bugs (read bugtraq) :-)

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Re:rip off -- try sharethenet

[sid crimson]

http://www.sharethenet.com Free to those who know a little about Linux. Minor req's and effective gateway. Fits on a floppy. If you want a couple more features, or don't want to fuss spend $70 and get the retail version. It's safe and friendly, just like Linux. :-) -sid

PicoBSD

[Phyre]

What's wrong with PicoBSD? Isn't that what this is based on anyway?

Had to do a little searching to find out where it was, I had lost track. Was considering it for a while. I used FreeBSD on an old 486 w/small hard drive for a while (dial-on-demand Ethernet/PPP router, firewall, NAT). Now I've switched to OpenBSD for security reasons.

Here's that link to PicoBSD for those interested:
http://www.freebsd.org /~picobsd/picobsd/doc_router/README.en [freebsd.org]

Looks like the only benefits to this Gnat Box thing are added menus and easy-config stuff. Do you really want someone who needs menus and such admining your firewall??? Eep!