something like pfsense or ebox

[ESGLinux]

Hi,


> >
> Let's clarify here, are you wanting something to control your
> firewall/proxy/router or to BE your firewall/proxy/router?
>
> The perfect thing I´m looking for is an application to mount over my RHEL
that does all the things that pfsense or ebox do.

if this is not possible I´ll use a distro to control the equipment.




> If you only want to control some existing equipment you have, you can go
> with any distro you like, although pfsense has the ability to be booted
> from a CD and use a USB key for any data storage needs (i.e.: more or
> less diskless and unalterable by the "bad guys"). I don't know about
> ebox so I can't say much.
>
> If you want something to be those things, you are probably better off
> going with pfsense (or ebox if that suits you better) as it will require
> less work on your part to configure, secure, etc. Make the USB key, SD
> card, whatever if you need it for configuration data, and you're done.
> Plus you don't need as much hardware (the only drive is the optical one,
> unless you view USB keys as drives which some do).
>
> Just remember that pfsense is not Linux, it is FreeBSD, so some things
> may not work identically to how you would do them on RHEL. That said,
> you may never need to use anything but the pfsense GUI.
>
>
I´ll try pfsense a try with a virtual machine to see if this really what I
want.



> Cheers,
>
>
>
Thanks,

ESG


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