[asterisk-users] Best Firewall Suggestions?

[Karl Fife]

BlankI think one of the very best options is pfSense.  Free Open-source, but it's BSD based, rather than LINUX based.  As such it has a lower risk of external exploits.  The user-interface makes it incredibly simple to set up and maintain.  There is an embedded versions of it available to run on affordable/reliable solid-state, diskless, fanless Soekris/PCEngines embedded system boards.   

It's incredibly powerful, and It's ROCK SOLID. I find the traffic shaping engine to work without a hitch.  PFSense can do anything you want including VPN (PPTP, IPSec, OpenVPN), failover (Multi-WAN), IDS/IPS (snort)

The NEWEST embedded version 1.2.3 rc3 (1.2.3-release is very close) can run the sipproxd package as well as many other packages that previously required the FULL version.  Goodbye one-way audio! :-)

-Karl 



----- Original Message ----- 
  From: David Wathen 
  To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion' 
  Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 11:04 AM
  Subject: [asterisk-users] Best Firewall Suggestions?


  Hi,

  My customer has a outdated firewall that is also presenting a NAT nightmare for getting the Asterisk server reachable from the internet. 

  What firewalls work good with VOIP? I really want to steer away from any ALG supported firewall. I just want a good firewall that works well with Asterisk.

  Thanks,

  David Wathen

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