Looking for someone with Cisco PIX experience

[Ansar Mohammed]

Pardon the OT response..


I do this with FreeBSD and pf. It doesn’t take very long to setup, but you need to be running either FreeBSD or OpenBSD. I also have altq running so that my p2p traffic does not affect my Voip(SIP/RTP) traffic.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org [mailto:owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Evan
> Leibovitch
> Sent: June 4, 2008 10:53 AM
> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Looking for someone with Cisco PIX experience
> 
> Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> > Or a more complex one, like say any random linux box.
> >
> Adding complexity is not an option.
> 
> > Linux can do many things in terms of routing and firewalling that a
> PIX can not.
> >
> May be, but the needs are simple:
> Keep almost everything out.
> Allow unlimited outgoing connections.
> Maintain a PPPoE connection to Bell.
> Allow two VPN connections from remote home offices.
> Allow one port to be forwarded to a PC running specialized software.
> 
> This should not require a complex solution. no filters, no caching,
> etc.
> If it did, IPCop would already be there.
> 
> - Evan
> 
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