[GRLUG] PFSense boxes

[Dan Pilcheck]

We've run pfSense at our warehouse for about a year now.
It's been reliable and is pretty straight forward.
A handful of people, voip phones and a T1.

At our office Untangle has been our proxy for nearly four years.
It does require a little more horsepower but has been very reliable as well.
In fact, recently(~6 mo) we put it in router mode. http://imgur.com/n84PFip
(We also moved from 1 subnet to many VLANs, Procurve handles internal
routes; we simplified our setup by removing an 1841 that only routed/NAT'd.)

We've only ever used Untangle's free features. Boss likes the report's
pie charts.
Its our first line of filtering, firewalling and monitoring -now with
routing as well.
Office handles about 50 people, phones. 10 meg fiber.

OpenVPN can not* run in bridged mode on either product.
We successfully run VPNs on both of the aforementioned products daily.

I don't have any experience with m0n0wall, IIRC I got the same feeling as Josh.

*Well, anything is possible if you're dedicated.

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 7:12 PM, Josh <leapole at gmail.com> wrote:
> i think monowall development has stopped or is moving slow,  Untangled is
> nice but requires a licensing and buying for some features.
>
> I have ran a pfsense box for a while and picked that out of the 3 and would
> recommend it to anyone that wants to use it
>
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 5:45 PM, Steve @ HCS <steveg at branchadventures.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> I don't know how many of you have used PFSense, but i have found the
>> software to be excellent.  Have any of you ever compared m0n0wall vs
>> Untangle vs PFSense?  My initial research found Untangle licensing
>> expensive, and i never really looked at monowall.   ???
>>
>> http://www.logicsupply.com/categories/firewall_computers is where i have
>> been purchasing them from lately for business, and haven't had any issues
>> (other than some IPSEC troubles due to lack of experience).
>>
>> Also i wondered if OpenVPN can be used in a bridge configuration?
>> --