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M0n0wall vs pfSense vs NanoBSD
This shows how secure and rock-solid FreeBSD is. Makura no Soshi was running FreeBSD 4.11 as fil ter ing net work bridge, and thinking of upgrading, he’s compared the pros and cons of m0n0wall, pfSense and NanoBSD. In the end he decided to go with NanoBSD. Thus I chose NanoBSD. YMMV, and I would not recommend [...]
Continue reading...m0n0wall 1.31 Released
12. March 2010
Manual Kasper has announced the release of m0n0wall 1.31. This is a quick summary of the changes since 1.3: various IPv6 improvements (in DNS forwarder, DHCPv6, AYIYA, etc.) bridge “disable spoof check” option (for non-m0n0wall DHCP and multicast) fans/temperature monitoring on status page for supported platforms (unfortunately Soekris/PC Engines not included fix for OpenSSL session renegotiation vulnerability (-> HTTPS webGUI) patch to [...]
Continue reading...Released: m0n0wall 1.3
4. December 2009
Manuel Kasper has announced m0n0wall 1.3. “After almost three years in beta, I have decided that m0n0wall 1.3 is now good enough for production. It’s basically a re-release of 1.3b18, with two fixes thrown in. No major bugs have been reported anymore, but as always, upgrade on your own risk . Major changes in this release (since [...]
Continue reading...Released: m0n0wall 1.236
5. October 2009
M0nowall version 1.236 was released last week in order to address a security issue in the ISC DHCP client. If you don’t use the DHCP client on WAN or if you trust the DHCP server(s), there’s no need to upgrade. 1.236 also includes a few captive portal fixes imported from the 1.3b branch, so if you use [...]
Continue reading...m0n0wall 1.3b18 released
25. August 2009
The m0n0wall team release beta 18 last week. The beta page has been updated to make it easier for you to decide what version is most suitable for you/your system: http://m0n0.ch/wall/beta.php
Continue reading...m0n0wall Beta 1.3b17 released
12. August 2009
Manual Kasper has released another m0n0wall beta release bringing the project closer to the release of the final m0n0wall 1.3. According to the announcement: The move to FreeBSD 6.4 has been completed, and legacy BRIDGE has been replaced by if_bridge (thanks to Chris Buechler), so if you’re using the bridging features, you may want to test [...]
Continue reading...ANNOUNCEMENT: BSD Router Project (bsdrp)
6. July 2009
Olivier Cochard-Labbé, an IP routing expert and founder of FreeNAS (a FreeBSD based Network-Attached-Storage system), has released the first alpha (0.1) image of his new project: BSD Router Project - http://bsdrp.net bsdrp is an open source customised distribution of FreeBSD dedicated to offering IP routing services for small ISP’s. The release 0.1 of BSDRP is a fully working prototype, to be used on real [...]
Continue reading...m0n0wall 1.3b16 released
16. April 2009
It’s been exactly 6 months since the last release (1.3b15), but m0nowall is not dead: beta 1.3b16 is now available. The developers have been busy with a kernel security bugfix (arc4random), support for Broadcom BCM5722 NICs, and IPv6 (DHCPv6, IPv6 webGUI access). Detailed change log and downloads can be found at m0n0.ch/wall/beta.php Regarding future development, 1.3 is planned to [...]
Continue reading...5 Best Linux/BSD Firewall tools
20. December 2008
Matt Hartley has written an article on Intranet Journal about (in his opinion) the 5 best Linux/BSD Firewall tools: IPCop pfSense M0n0wall SmoothWall Linux LiveCD Router Over the course of recent years, some people have found the quality of most out-of-the-store firewall appliances either lacking functionality or worse, set at a price that has made them generally out of reach. Because of [...]
Continue reading...m0n0wall: big friendly firewall power in a tiny package
18. November 2008
m0n0wall is a specialized implementation of FreeBSD designed for routers and firewalls. It weighs in at well under 10 megabytes, but you still get a complete operating system, firewall, Web administration, traffic shaping, DNS server, DHCP server, SNMP, support for DynDNS updates and a whole lot more. m0n0wall offers a nice pointy-clicky interface for setting [...]
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8. June 2010
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