Re: [OT] best (Linux based!) all-in-one NAS-VPN-firewall?

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On 6/30/19 5:57 AM, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
Am 29.06.2019 um 10:51 schrieb M. Fioretti:
Greetings,

One of my jobs in the next months will be Free Software teaching/
consulting for a small private school. Part of the consulting consists
of helping the school to evaluate how to set up some infrastructure,
using Linux/Free Software as much as possible.

I have been just asked to, quoting, "suggest an all-in-one
NAS-VPN-firewall for the school". We are talking ~80 students in the
8/13 years age range, maybe more after summer, plus teachers and
administration. The "all-in-one" part is the key requirement, and also
the reason why I am asking for recommendations based on your
real-world experience. I know how to handle this stuff the 100%
DIY/hacker way, but that is not an option in this case. Me, I wouldn't
mind but, while the school would like to use more FOSS also for
administration and internal services, actual teaching has much higher
priority this year.

Thanks in advance for any feedback,
Marco

Hi,

I am a bit surprised that so far nobody has commented on that request that it is not a good idea to combine the 3 features your client asks for in a single system. Well, VPN server and a firewall can be combined. But I would strongly recommend not to host a NAS on the same instance.

I know this type of customer and why they ask for such solution. But you as their consultant should do more than to search for such a miscombination from my point of view.

True, but there is software out there that does it all, so you only learn one approach for the two systems.

Again, Nethserver is an example that does it all.  You as the installer decide what goes on which system.

And BTW, I do not currently use Nethserver, but I am considering it for my Windows Domain server replacement from ClearOS.  Which I really should mention that ClearOS is let another Centos based Firewall/VPN/NAS product.  I have been running ClearOS as my Windows PDC for years.  The reason I am not going to continue with them is that my next server will be an armv7 (Cubietruck), and Nethserver has put in support for arm.

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