Rod.. Whitworth wrote:
Somebody sent me a query asking for a justification for my proposal to
supply a firewall/router using OpenBSD when there was thsi device:
http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=327 , with all its claimed bells and
whistles.
Well, I we connected a new client with straight ethernet via a Dlink
DL-600 (which their previous isp made them buy). It just wouldn't
work. I could see it's mac address, but that was it. So I went there
(7pm on Saturday night) and stuffed around with it for 1/2 an hour.
Reset it. Reconfigured it etc. Zip. Nup. Nada. I plugged in a
workstation and configured it and yep, it worked.
I had a completely new OBSD firewall configured for them within 1/2 an
hour. On a Saturday night.
Oh, and the user interface on the dlink? Brain-dead would be a compliment.
Anybody know what, if anything, it does that an OBSD solution doesn't/
cannot, that may be important?
Or alternatively the reverse.
I've started with SSL VPNs (OpenVPN based) which I have found to be
very easy for clients to add to road-warrior machines. I'll be doing a
bit more research on it too but hopefully somebody has some knowledge
of the beast.
Thanks,
Rod/
>From the land "down under": Australia.
Do we look <umop apisdn> from up over?
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