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Any reason you're not looking at one of the big boys such as Cisco?
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Yep. The biggest reason is $$ (in my case €€). The price of a firewall is not a real show stopper but I've worked with Symantec appliances and for those we hade to dump over 6000 euros each to our supplier and this is just not doable for now.
Currently we are just looking into alternatives for our old firewall. Smoothwall is definitively an option if I can get some supported NIC's.
Squid would also be an option.
It’s just that I have almost no experience with Linux firewalls and I'm looking for some suggestions/comment/warning/whatever from people that already use a Linux firewall.
Anyway thanx for the Info Richard. I'll look into the links you provided and maybe setup some test systems with the different types.
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Mart
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