pfsense deployment on UCS-E

philip moore — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 16:40:47 GMT

Dear Community

A client has an existing WAN solution based on FlexVPN with DIA secured by ZBFW. We wish to migrate this to the Enterprise standard IWAN which follows latest CVD.

ZBFW to secure tunnel transports (global) is not described in IWAN prescriptive design and from operational perspective is somewhat of a nightmare to manage (complicated config, too many hands on router CLI etc), therefore we're looking for a way forward with this to offload ZBFW to an external appliance. Customer did not have budget for our current standard (Checkpoint) so we're looking at free alternatives hosted on UCSE.

Key constraint is that each customer branch is very light deployment, with all features and services collapsed in a single ISR G2 2951 router. Router has a UCS-E140S-M1/K9 which currently has 2 VMs running on it (vWAAS & Windows server). Client has spare ISR 4321 which is available for future upgrade, sadly they didn't buy a UCS-E for this.

Looking for advice or design template for deployment of perimeter (Internet facing) firewall hosted on UCSE.

Potential candidate for firewall is pfsense, but also considering netfilter/iptables on Red Hat, clearOS and IPFire.

I read this page but quite complicated...https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/servers-unified-computing/ucs-e-series-servers/white-paper-c11-739289.html

Thanks in advance for your support and interest

Phil

Any advice appreciated

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