netfilter vs. hardware-based firewalls

[Sandy Harris]

Jamie Pratt wrote:
 
> My boss is considering hardware-based firewall solutions - Can anyone give
> me some ammo to throw back as to why Netfilter would be better ...

Don't some of the hardware firewalls run Linux and netfilter or ipchains?
Would one of those make both you and the boss happy?

I don't know of a list specifically for netfilter, but I have a list of
turnkey firewall products that use Linux FreeS/WAN for IPSEC VPN service.

http://www.freeswan.org/freeswan_trees/freeswan-1.91/doc/intro.html#turnkey

My guess would be that most of those would use ipchains or netfilter for
the firewall component.