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  Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 17:57:05 -0400 
  To: announce@lists.nycbug.org 
  From: NYC*BUG Announcement  
  Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Wed Sept 6th 
  
  Isaac `Ike` Levy on m0n0wall and PFSense 
  
  Back to the Soho Apple Store! 
  
  6:30 pm, Soho Apple Store at 103 Prince Street 
  
  UNIX professionals are busy these days. Setting up routers and firewalls 
  are fundamental to any network, but in environments where the focus is 
  on various applications, (servers, workstations, and the software that 
  runs on them), it`s difficult for a business not to choose to simply buy 
  off the shelf SOHO routers and networking gear.The web management gui`s 
  are understandable by everyone, (even techs without UNIX knowledge), and 
  the gear is cheap- this saves time and money. In the meantime, the 
  features of your average Linksys or Netgear router often leave MUCH to 
  be desired, (https auth management, for one simple example). 
  
  Enter m0n0wall and PFSense, 2 BSD based packaged router/firewall 
  solutions that are as solid and full featured as you`d expect from any 
  BSD system- PLUS THEY HAVE HTML WEB INTERFACES FOR MANAGEMENT! m0n0wall 
  and PFSense become an easy sell in any small professional enviornment, 
  any compitent tech can manage the network within minutes... At home, in 
  every hackers home network, they free the hacker to have trusted tools 
  available, but are as time-saving as using any linksys router. 
  
  m0n0wall and PFSense are both light and clean, designed to run on 
  embedded systems- (Soekris, WRAP), but are monsters when unleashed on 
  even legacy PC`s around the office. If you manage UNIX networks and 
  systems all day, do you really want to manage the router for your DSL 
  when you get home? But then doesn`t it bug you to use a chincey Linksys 
 box? 
  
  Ike has been a member of NYC*BUG since we first launched in January 
  2004. He is a long-time member of the Lower East Side Mac Unix User 
  Group. He has spoken frequently on a number of topics at various venues, 
  particulary on the issue of FreeBSD`s jail (8). 
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