I just spent some time on this and got a working image for the Watchguard Firebox X 500-2500 platforms.
For more info about it, I'm keeping track of everything in a forum here: http://www.thewaffle.org/Forum/viewforum.php?f=6&st=0&sk=t&sd=d&start=0 While I was at it, I pulled out an old Watchguard Firebox III and attempted to get the image working on it as well, to my surprise I was successful at this as well, tracking this platforms progress here: http://www.thewaffle.org/Forum/viewforum.php?f=25 These are great platforms for this application, onboard crypto accelerators and the 3port FBIII has a pci slot for expansion so you could get another 4 ports off it as well. They can be had for a reasonable price on eBay at most times. Let me know if anyon has any questions about this. Thanks, Jim On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 8:26 AM, James Records <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > I just got some screenshots of the project up, if you care to take a look: > > http://www.thewaffle.org/screenshots.html > > There is also a working copy of the VMware image of the project availible > for download, see the following for brief instructions on how to setup the > image: > > http://www.thewaffle.org/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=11&p=16#p16 > > pardon the site design, not my forte, hopefully getting someone else to > build me something better soon. > > Over the next couple days I'll get an image made for the WG firebox X > series, I have one laying around that I can work on, hopefully by this > weekend. > > J > > On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 3:08 PM, James Records <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> Grab a Watchguard Firebox X off of ebay, they have 6 interfaces, and you >> can get them pretty cheap, some of the bigger ones have more, onboard >> crypto, perfect for building openbsd firewalls... you can run off a CF... >> >> I'm putting together a project that uses openbsd on these boxes. If you >> have any questions about running openbsd on them let me know: >> >> www.thewaffle.org >> >> >> Thanks, >> Jim >> >> >> >> >> On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 2:59 PM, phoenixcomm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: >> >>> MartC-n Coco wrote: >>> > >>> > Hi misc, >>> > >>> > I'm currently looking for hardware alternatives for firewalls that >>> > should have more than four NICs. >>> > >>> > Currently we are buying R200s from Dell, but we have the 4 NIC >>> > limitation. We could tell Dell to install a quad port NIC (in addition >>> > to the two-port onboard card), but I haven't read good things about the >>> > way they work. >>> > >>> > I've also looked into soekris, but they don't seem to have enough CPU >>> > for what we want (this is pure speculation) as we also have intense >>> > IPSec traffic on some of these firewalls (I've seen that some of them >>> > could have encryption boards added to increase performance, but I don't >>> > know if it works for any kind of protocol, or at what rate). >>> > >>> > In any case, what I would like to have is firewalls with multiple NICs >>> > (at least 6 NICs) *and* sufficient CPU to let IPSec work alright at >>> > least at ~50Mbps (internal backbone firewalls). The multiple NICs are >>> to >>> > use trunk, pfsync, real network interfaces, etc. >>> > >>> > Thanks, >>> > Martmn. >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> Hi Gang, >>> well heres my 3 cents, >>> first why use a stupid PC (any os) for routing...... REALY BAD jue,jue >>> brake >>> down and buy a old Cisco 7200, 7500, 3600 they are all very good >>> routers, I >>> used a 7500 for a while and now use a 3640 >>> i use pf as a transparent bridge behind my router.. and protects my >>> servers >>> I have 3 nics, (world, dmz, ssh) >>> >>> you could put up a firewall before your router and put everything out one >>> vlan to the router. >>> and I have a cisco 2900-xl-en switch with 3 vlans on it... and no >>> bleeding.. >>> enjoy >>> Crazy Cris >>> :working: >>> -- >>> View this message in context: >>> >>> http://www.nabble.com/Hardware-recommendation-for-firewalls-%28more-than-4-NI >>> Cs%29-tp18413703p18899631.html<http://www.nabble.com/Hardware-recommendation-for-firewalls-%28more-than-4-NICs%29-tp18413703p18899631.html> >>> Sent from the openbsd user - misc mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
