[K12OSN] Meeting with district

[Steven Santos]

Yes, BSD makes for a great firewall.  But BSD won't solve his problem.  The
FortiNet firewall makes the upstream techs happy, then I say its a small
price to pay.

As K12LTSP useage grows Todd can easily place more and more K112LTSP servers
and other linux workstations and servers behind this firewall until the
whole school is behind it.  And it will then be very difficult for district
to tell you your interfearing with their operations.

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Steven Santos
Director, Simply Circus, Inc.
Email: Steven at SimplyCircus.com
 Mail: PO BOX 620753
       Newton, MA 02462
Phone: 781-799-4938
 eFax: 309-214-0899
  Web: www.SimplyCircus.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:k12osn-bounces at redhat.com]On
> Behalf Of Steve Gilmore
> Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2006 10:33 AM
> To: Support list for open source software in schools.
> Subject: Re: [K12OSN] Meeting with district
>
>
> 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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