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    PfSense and perimeter security

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      noamb
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      Hey folks,

      We're seriously considering standardizing on pfSense as our preferred router platform, for all but our largest clients (because support isn't 24x7).

      I have one concern, however: I’m not aware that pfSense has much by way of advanced perimeter security. I know it has Snort as an optional package but in my playing with Snort it really peeved the heck out of me and I had to go pop some Extra-Strength Advil before uninstalling it.

      I also don’t know nearly enough about advanced perimeter security to know what I'm talking about!!! I know that the larger commercial router vendors like Cisco etc. have annual subscriptions to their threat databases and whatever but I don't really know what that means, whether it's worth it, and whether something like pfSense can do the same as effectively.

      What think?

      n

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        KOM
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        I've had good results with Snort.  pfSense also has Suricata.  Both are IDS engines (Intrusion Detection System) that load daily update files with threat parameters.

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