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    Build Your Own IDS Firewall With PFSense

    Peter, I just saw your response (forum's email is being wonky). You are correct that an IDS just in reporting mode isn't very helpful. Greg did point out on Page 3 of his article how to set SNORT up to automatically block incoming attacks (or what it thinks are attacks). It significantly...
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    Build Your Own IDS Firewall With PFSense

    Greg, Yeah Astaro runs the standard snort IDS system. They are their own rule provider because they felt several rules in the snort DB were too aggressive, which I found funny seeing as their ruleset was causing issues for me. They do not however allow custom rules to be created via the web...
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    Build Your Own IDS Firewall With PFSense

    Hey Greg, Good article. I was in a similar situation of having an unused piece of hardware and decided to play around with pfsense. I have since uninstalled it and switched to Astaro Home. Both have their ups and downs. Here is what I have found between running both: Astaro Home is much...
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    Review Request, Amahi and Marvell Plug computer

    Bart, Out of curiosity, any particular reason you would run this over a RAID solution? I know RAID adds in its own amount of management and headaches, like dealing with expanding the volumes and their subsequent partitions. But I was reading a little bit about Greyhole, and it almost feels...
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    Review Request, Amahi and Marvell Plug computer

    Bart, I'm honestly surprised it took Microsoft that long to kill it. While I thought it was a great idea, Microsoft in my opinion is usually a couple years ahead of the curve when it comes to these things, and usually doesn't invest enough in furthering the tech after they deploy it. Look at...
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