Check out Astaro Linux (http://www.astaro.com) if you haven't already. Kind of bloated for a firewall, but has lots of reporting and intrusion detection capabilities, and kernel 2.4. The makers of it have a box with 24 ethernet interfaces (6 4 port intel cards) running. This would make it an excellent solution for a company/ISP who needs connections to lots of other company's networks. I use Cisco PIX's, and they are limited to 6 interfaces, although I think the new one (PIX 535) supports more. Astaro is free for non-commercial use, but they want you to pay for commercial use. I don't know how they plan to enforce that though since it's all GPL software (as far as I can tell). Jay > -----Original Message----- > From: Brian [mailto:lxy at cloudnet.com] > Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 11:41 AM > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Microsoft ISA firewall > > > On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, amy tanner wrote: > > > Anyone have experience with ISA server? I'm looking for > comparisons with it and other firewalls, specifically > iptables, and any other gotchas. thanks. > > I just have to know, why do you ask this? My gut reaction is that > firewalls should be their own box, which means an extra > Windows license, > which means a Linksys/Netgear/etc firewall router thingy > would be cheaper, > and of course a Linux/*BSD486 box would be even cheaper yet > so really, I > just have to ask why :-) > > -brian > > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >