Hello,
I'm an IT Administrator for 4 residence buildings on a university campus. We currently use Astaro boxes as our gateway devices. We've been using them for quite a while but I want to review what's out there to see what our options are.
Our primary needs are: DHCP (public IP's), firewall (no port blocking, just stop known attacks), authentication to OpenLDAP (currently using Astaro proxy), reporting on usage by authenticated user, some form of QOS would be nice.
Some considerations:
-I'm OK with Open Source software as long as it's fairly stable.
-Because it's a University campus, strictly locking down ports/web/app usage is not something we are permitted to do. We just need to manage the Internet resource as responsibly as we can.
From your experience, any suggestions for gateway solutions whether it be turn-key boxes or a software package?