m0n0wall
I’d been having problems with my Watchguard Firebox X500 firewall at the office. Seemingly randomly, the damn thing would lock up, and I would have to power cycle it to unfreeze it. Nothing in the logs yielded clues. Firmware updates didn’t help.
I and my users put up with this for about 6 weeks. No one was happy with the situation.
Tonight, I switched to m0n0wall. It took me and another guy 2.5 hours total to configure everything. Everything seems to be working well. We configured PPTP VPN, the webservers, and mail server. The provided web interface is extremely easy to use and gave access to everything that we needed to configure.
m0n0wall is a project aimed at creating a complete, embedded firewall software package that, when used together with an embedded PC, provides all the important features of commercial firewall boxes (including ease of use) at a fraction of the price (free software). It is based on a bare-bones version of FreeBSD, along with a web server, PHP and a few other utilities.
