I found this article on Associated Content that describes several open source firewalls and compares them to commercially available firewalls. It makes a solid argument for free firewalls in most places except large enterprise. Take a look at Build your own firewall.

[tags]IPcop, Monowall, Pfsense, linux, Smoothwal, firewall, web filtering[/tags]

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