pfSense and M0n0wall Firewall Appliances
M0n0wall and pfSense are both well known opensource firewalls that have been around and have stood the test of time amongst Unix and Linux users over the years. They are both based on rock solid FreeBSD
Some of the Features (more can be found on their respective sites pfsense and m0n0wall
- Firewall Filtering by source and destination IP, IP protocol, source and destination port for TCP and UDP traffic
- pfSense is a stateful firewall, by default all rules are stateful
- pfSense has numerous features allowing granular control of your state table
- Network Address Translation (NAT)
- Redundancy - CARP from OpenBSD allows for hardware failover. Two or more firewalls can be configured as a failover group. If one interface fails on the primary or the primary goes offline entirely, the secondary becomes active. pfSense also includes configuration synchronization capabilities, so you make your configuration changes on the primary and they automatically synchronize to the secondary firewall.
- Outbound Load Balancing
- Inbound Load Balancing
- VPN - pfSense offers three options for VPN connectivity, IPsec, OpenVPN, and PPTP.
- PPPoE Server - pfSense offers a PPPoE server.
- Reporting and Monitoring - The RRD graphs in pfSense maintain historical information on the following. / CPU utilization / Total throughput / Firewall states / Individual throughput for all interfaces / Packets per second rates for all interfaces / WAN interface gateway(s) ping response times / Traffic shaper queues on systems with traffic shaping enable
- Dynamic DNS
- Captive Portal - Captive portal allows you to force authentication, or redirection to a click through page for network access. used to authenticate from Microsoft Active DHCP Server and Relay
- pfSense includes both DHCP Server and Relay functionality
Appliance Features:
- 500 MHz AMD Geode LX800 CPU
- 256 MB DDR DRAM
- 2GB CF Card pre-loaded with m0n0wall or pfSense
- 3 10/100 Ethernet ports (VIA VT6105M 10/100)
- 1 miniPCI slot for future expansion (VPN Acceleration, wireless, etc.)
- 2 USB ports
- Black case
- US Plug Style 120 VAC/DC 15V 1.25A 18W Switching Power Supply
- Assembled and tested
Warranty and Support Information:
- Free 1 hour telephone support
- Paid commercial support is also available for both m0n0wall or pfSense here.
- Standard 30 day return policy.
- 90 Day Warranty.
- >All Specifications subject to change without notice.
- Clustered Networks will make a $25.00 donation to the m0n0wall or pfSense project for every unit purchased.
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