[Cialug] IPFire

[Jared Brees]

To be fair, most Linux/BSD firewall distros (including pfSense and OPNsense), have the ability to add features like file sharing, etc.

It's just a matter of whether or not you really should. Further, the argument could be made you should *only* have the firewall be a firewall. No DHCP, no DNS, etc. Just firewalling. The only add-on* I have with my main pfSense setup is OpenVPN Client Export utility - which having the firewall handle VPN is relatively standard practice for even enterprise firewalls.


*I use DNS, DHCP, etc., but those aren't add-ons.
________________________________
From: Cialug <cialug-bounces at cialug.org> on behalf of David Champion <dchamp1337 at gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2020 14:41
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
Subject: Re: [Cialug] IPFire

I've done this in a lab setup, not sure I'd rely on it for a "production"
configuration.

I had done some testing with Untangle about a year ago but not using it
currently. I didn't have any problems with installing it. It isn't Free
(has a free-to-use community version), but does have a nice GUI and a lot
of advanced features if you need those.

-dc


On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 2:29 PM Justin Richeson <neomatrixjr at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Agreed, though...that's coming from a guy running OPNSense as a VM on my
> primary unRAID NAS/DOCKER/VM host.  Though, to aid in isolation it has a
> hardware 4xGB Nic passthrough to it and no virtual NICs....someone would
> have to break the VM wall or break through the firewall to get in.
> Admittedly, I'm finding this isn't a great setup in practice though.
>
> On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 12:34 PM Jeffrey Ollie <jeff at ocjtech.us> wrote:
>
> > I was just looking through the features and I saw that it offered
> "add-ons"
> > that would let you turn your firewall into a Samba file/print server,
> > backup server, yadda yadda yadda.  This is precisely the kind of thing
> that
> > I DON'T want in a firewall. OK, I get that they are targeting the
> > home/small office user but your firewall shouldn't be your everything
> else
> > server as well.
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 10:13 PM L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Caughr a blurb today about a new release - anyone using it?
> > >
> > >         Lee
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Cialug mailing list
> > > Cialug at cialug.org
> > > https://www.cialug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cialug
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Jeff Ollie
> > The majestik møøse is one of the mäni interesting furry animals in
> Sweden.
> > _______________________________________________
> > Cialug mailing list
> > Cialug at cialug.org
> > https://www.cialug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cialug
> >
> _______________________________________________
> Cialug mailing list
> Cialug at cialug.org
> https://www.cialug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cialug
>
_______________________________________________
Cialug mailing list
Cialug at cialug.org
https://www.cialug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cialug