Also to consider is the total cost of ownership, including the time and resources needed to maintain and operate FOSS products effectively. These functionalities are usually included within commercial products and services, but not as often with FOSS products. ![]() When considering acquiring FOSS products for anything larger than micro business, then one should always acknowledge various value added business elements, such as warranty, maintenance and support and how these requirements are met. All views expressed in this article are my own and do not represent the opinions of any entity whatsoever with which I have been, am now, or will be affiliated. Virtualizing firewall is of course great option as well, but not part of this specific report.ĭISCLAIMER: This article is by no means an academic study, research or thesis and is meant primarily to help avid hobbyists, students and home users to explore world of self-build firewalls. Also notice, that this review takes a stand regarding building the firewall on top of bare metal hardware (HW) and not virtualizing it. ![]() Albeit notice, that I’m taking a stand regarding building the actual device only, but not so much configuring it. With this fairly lightweight and intermediate level article I would like to share my own personal experience and provide hints & tips in hope it would help someone else passionate enough and thinking about taking the same journey as I did to the world of self-build firewalls. Cisco IOS and Extreme Networks Exos) and I know, but haven’t really used a lot of other various Unix-like router and FW software packages/distros (e.g. I’m also a bit familiar with few commercial network appliance OS’ (e.g. DD-WRT, OpenWRT, Gargoyle Router, Tomato Firmware etc. My experience from Small Office/Home Office (SOHO) firewall/router Operating Systems comes from Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS) router world including e.g. ![]() During the past 20 years I’ve built, configured and hardened my various home networks to include dozens of workstations, servers, mobile devices, switches and routers since pre-teen and from now on and since summer of 2018, dedicated self-build firewall (FW) appliances as well. I’m a passionate Cyber Security and Network enthusiast, long time computer nerd and IT Business Professional. I finally had time enough to build, deploy and configure my own dedicated Enterprise-Level bare metal hardware firewall from the scratch. During the long and exceptionally hot summer of 2018 in Finland I was able to accomplish an ICT project which I had longed for quite a while now.
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