Re: [PLUG] SonicWall compatible firewall and VPN

[JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org>]

> Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:04:00 -0500
> From: Art Alexion<art.alexion@gmail.com>

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> These devices are only sort of designed for this.  That is, they can
> be clustered to deliver more bandwidth, but doen't seem to support a
> hardware firewall/vpn because there is no wired connection.
>
> Possible work-around: We are thinking that we might be able to connect a
> computer downstream that provides the firewall/vpn capabilities, and have
> the office workstations connect to the internet through that computer.

Look at M0n0wall which is designed for embedded firewalls and supports 
wireless cards (http://doc.m0n0.ch/handbook/hardware-wireless.html). 
It's FreeBSD, but managed via web GUI and the entire OS + Firewall 
config is a single XML file.  See also PFSense, a fork of M0n0wall with 
slightly different goals.

Either should be able to do what you want.

Good luck,
JP
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