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

[Karl Auer]

On Sat, 2019-06-29 at 10:49 +0200, M. Fioretti wrote:
> I have been just asked to, quoting, "suggest an all-in-one
> NAS-VPN-firewall for the school". [...]
> The "all-in-one" part is the key requirement

It may be a key requirement, but it is a very, very bad one. It's
putting all your eggs in one basket. It means you cannot get the best
router, the best firewall, the best VPN concentrator or the best NAS,
because each of those will be limited by the others. You can't swap out
separate components if they turn out to be inadequate or faulty. If the
all-in-one fails, you have lost everything.

This is absolutely the wrong solution for any serious enterprise and (I
would go so far as to say) especially a school.

Get separate devices.

Regards, K.

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