IPCop/SmoothWall
I've been looking at both of these for home use to replace the custom RedHat 7-based box that has been in service as a router/firewall for nearly three years now.
Browsing the features a little more, both of these seem to be very robust firewall/VPN products. I'm thinking about implementing them at my place of employment to replace a Cisco PIX, and negate the need for purchasing two more PIXes.
My question is.. if you have experience with either, how solid are they? How well would they stand up in a corporate environment? Also, how well does the VPN work? I would only be doing a site-to-site VPN, and maybe hacking a couple laptops to VPN in for the road warriors.
Right now we I have a single PIX in our main location, but I'm going to be moving my two webservers (running Linux, of course) to an offsite co-lo with our ISP. The ISP does not provide firewalling for co-lo machines, so I'm faced with purchasing another PIX for that. Second, we have an offsite location that really needs to be secured and put behind a VPN. Another PIX for that would be ideal.
So that's about $3,000 in new Cisco hardware. If both of these look right to me, I could spend about $200-500 on two used PowerEdge's or Proliants, and then send the PIX with my co-lo boxen. (because, of course, rack space is money :).
Are these distros really that good?
Browsing the features a little more, both of these seem to be very robust firewall/VPN products. I'm thinking about implementing them at my place of employment to replace a Cisco PIX, and negate the need for purchasing two more PIXes.
My question is.. if you have experience with either, how solid are they? How well would they stand up in a corporate environment? Also, how well does the VPN work? I would only be doing a site-to-site VPN, and maybe hacking a couple laptops to VPN in for the road warriors.
Right now we I have a single PIX in our main location, but I'm going to be moving my two webservers (running Linux, of course) to an offsite co-lo with our ISP. The ISP does not provide firewalling for co-lo machines, so I'm faced with purchasing another PIX for that. Second, we have an offsite location that really needs to be secured and put behind a VPN. Another PIX for that would be ideal.
So that's about $3,000 in new Cisco hardware. If both of these look right to me, I could spend about $200-500 on two used PowerEdge's or Proliants, and then send the PIX with my co-lo boxen. (because, of course, rack space is money :).
Are these distros really that good?
