I used mOnOwall for several years (FreeBSD based ISO). It was rock-solid stable. I remember shutting it down to apply a security update once and it had been running some 400+ days without a reboot. http://m0n0.ch/wall/ Brian Hoort College of Agriculture and Natural Resources Technology Services Helpdesk Michigan State University Helpline: (517) 355-3776 http://support.anr.msu.edu -----Original Message----- From: STeve Andre' [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2013 12:48 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [MSUNAG] firewalls OpenBSD pf for Political Science. (Do many people use ipf on BSD's?) --STeve Andre' On 02/01/13 09:56, Brian Martinez wrote: > ipf/pf if you are on Unix (BSD). Or Shorewall on Linux. > > We just use the standard Windows Firewall on our Windows servers (we > typically don't do much, just have to keep a port open, or let a > program through on each server, save for the AD). > > ./brm > > > > On 2/1/2013 9:33 AM, Oscar Castaneda wrote: >> I was wondering what is the consensus (if such a thing is possible to >> achieve) when it comes to software firewalls. >> Can you tell me what software firewall (if any) is your group using? >> If I get enough responses, and there is interest, I will tally your >> responses and send them to the list. >> >> >> oscar >