HP server with ESX coloed at work in one of our DC's
various 2k8/2k12 and debian VMs for internet heavy stuff (game/web servers etc)
Supermicro ESX at home for playing and home "services"
Paloalto VM
Sophos VM
PFsense VM
Fortigate VM
juniper SSLVPN
1 debian for monitoring (checkMK and...
you can completely administrate them via CLI or rest API, user ID stuff can also be used in non windows environments via captive portal for example. we have a few customers with mac setups and they just authenticate via captive portal.
not sure where you can find a PA for under 500$ =) if you...
I do this with 2x squid, one local one on the other side of the tunnel
config on the local squid looks something like this...
acl redirect dstdomain .domain.com .domain1.com
cache_peer 192.168.1.1 parent 3128 0
cache_peer_access 192.168.1.1 allow localnet redirect
never_direct allow...
paloalto 500 cluster or 2020 cluster
i work with Juniper ssg/srx, checkpoint, paloalto, astaro and pfsense PA is my fav by far from usabilty to features only scary thing is mostly the price :(
I've had it installed for over a week on my laptop.
Initial response was: Where the hell did I put the windows 7 CD.
after now using it for a bit I will probably keep it installed, very few/no drawbacks, uses less ram boots fairly quick, sure the metro stuff is pretty pointless without a...