[TriLUG] Cable modem + firewall + router

[Paul G. Szabady]

Thanks to all that replied.  I've had a number of suggestions for both 
sonicwall and pfsense.  I guess now I just need to make a decision.

--
Paul
@ Thy Service


John Broome wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:39, Paul G. Szabady <paul at thyservice.com> wrote:
>> Steve, et al:
> 
>> Expanding on your example, I'd like to find a commodity appliance that will
>> route packets to the servers using public IPs as well as NAT for others,
>> while also providing a firewall.  A number of these servers on the PubIP
>> side use the same std ports (ie: 80, 443, 22, etc) so I can't easily use
>> port forwarding.  I'm hoping I don't need to go the way of an expensive
>> Cisco router.  ;/
> 
> 
> I'm not sure you're going to be able to pick something up at best buy
> that's going to do this.  If you're wanting a 'commodity appliance'
> vs. build your own, i think you're looking at a sonicwall or something
> similar.  You can get what you want w/o having to pay cisco-level
> prices.
> 
> If you do build (or have someone build for you) something i do
> recommend pfsense/m0n0wall.  It'll be easy to set up, and easy for you
> to maintain afterwords.
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