[K12OSN] Meeting with district

[Timothy Hart]

I really think that some people think they are actually getting something
when they buy hardware firewalls. It is really just an underpowered PC with
some very difficult to manage software. At least that is what I have run
into. There are many other options. But hey, at least they are letting you
do your thing. Can't win every fight. At least you won the war.

On 11/2/06, Steve Gilmore <stegil at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> I agree with Ray G that a good BSD will perform equally well at almost 0$
> .
> All you need is a spare PC a few nic cards.
> Monowall was the 1st firewall I used but have since migrated to PFsense a
> fork of Monowall. It has a few more features.Both have web interfaces for
> configuration/monitoring and great community support.
> http://m0n0.ch/wall/
> http://www.pfsense.com/
>
> Cheers
> SteveG
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Todd O'Bryan" <toddobryan at mac.com>
> To: "Support list for open source software in schools." <k12osn at redhat.com
> >
> Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 10:23 PM
> Subject: [K12OSN] Meeting with district
>
>
> > Hey all,
> >
> > We met with the district this afternoon and, after much
> discussion,  they
> > agreed to let us use the thin clients as long as we bought a  hardware
> > firewall to insulate us from the network. They're  comfortable with one
> > brand (FortiNet) so we're looking at an extra  $1000 or so.
> >
> > They're going to get us a quote, so I'll keep you updated about
> where  we
> > are.
> >
> > Thanks for all the help,
> > Todd
> >
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