On 30 September 2010 23:19, Patrick Lamaiziere <patf...@davenulle.org>wrote:
> Hi, > > We are in the process to replace two Cisco Pix firewalls and one Cisco > router with two servers running PF with carp. The network is large > (it is an University) and all will depend on this two machines. > > We have made some tests with OpenBSD, PF and OpenBGPD and it looks to > work (but we have to make a lot of more tests to validate this). > > I think that the support for an OpenBSD release is very small (only one > year) and I'm suggesting to use FreeBSD instead (we can expect ~3/4 > years of support if we follow a stable branch). > > I am an happy user of FreeBSD since some time - I mean that I know it is > not perfect and there are some bugs! - but I dont have any experience > running it as a router on a large network. So, are PF and carp expected > to work fine on FreeBSD or are there some known problems? > > Do you think that OpenBSD suits better for this? > > Thanks, regards. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > In my experiance freebsd should work fine. However I would say openbsd is probably better suited to your needs, due to its tighter security model (auditing) You will also get a newer version of pf with openbsd. If you get issues with openBGP would could look at quagga. I have used it in the past but havent for a while so am not sure of the state of it now. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
