On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Eric Cope wrote: > I use freebsd, openvpn, pf. OpenVPN is the same (different locations). PF > is pretty easy to use imo. > > Eric > > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Nathan England wrote: > >> On Monday 19 October 2009 14:46:54 Paul Mooring wrote: >> > I've been running linux routers using iproute2 and iptables for a while >> > now, and openBSD just had a new release which has me considering >> > switching my home setup to a BSD pf solution. Does anyone have any >> > experience comparing the two? I guess I'm also concerned about other >> > software I use on my linux router not being supported in openBSD >> > (OpenVPN, OpenSwan, and Quagga primarily). >> > >> >> While one system may have strengths or weaknesses and one may be more >> secure >> than the other, no system will ever be more secure than the one you know. >> Don't pick a system you know nothing about and use software you are not >> familiar with and expect it to be a safer solution than the one you are >> familiar with and know how to use. >> >> then again, the most inexperienced user on the planet who couldn't find >> his >> way home if standing in front of his house could still manage to install >> Ubuntu and be more secure than windows... ha ha! >> > I've used IPcop, smoothwall, m0n0wall, PF, and Cisco. I tried pfsense, a long time ago in its early stages, and it didn't quite work as I wanted. I prefer pf on FreeBSD with Squid/SquidGuard. PF was ported from OpenBSD to FreeBSD in 2003. Some links for reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PF_%28firewall%29 http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/sysadmin/2007/02/15/evaluating_firewalls.html http://onlamp.com/bsd/2006/02/16/os_fingerprint_filtering.html http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf