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redeyes posted:Thing is Pfsense is based on BSD and I think it would be a good idea to get him used to the Linux side of routing and firewalling. Recommendations? pfSense is fine, but Linux vs BSD has nothing to do with it. All these appliances hide the underlying utilities anyway. What you need to do is teach him the concepts. Broadcast domains, collision domains, ARP, MAC addresses, IPv4 headers, how to read packet dumps, what are routing protocols and how do they work, 3-way handshakes, how to properly read a traceroute, MTU, PMTU and why blocking pings is bad, what are VLANs, etc etc etc redeyes posted:Of course I could have him load a distro from scratch too and build the stuff from scratch.. but I don't think anyone does that anymore. I wouldn't suggest that to anyone these days. The utilities are constantly changing. He's better off understanding the real concepts so he can apply them anywhere. edit: I have a Juniper J2320 I'm willing to sell if you want to PM me. He can play with some real gear. It's aging, but it's been rehashed as Juniper SRX and runs the same software and has the exact same features. feld fucked around with this message at 23:05 on Jul 29, 2014 |
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