The aim of the new Halon Security Router Firewall is to bring the Internet firewall into the IPv6 age. Halon Security claims that despite the move to IPv6 looming on everyone's doorstep, "few firewall manufacturers seem to focus on the greatest change in how the world communicates since the Internet was born". The company's innovation is to build a custom, OpenBSD-based OS from the ground up with a focus on IPv6, security and performance. Core features include high-performance routing, wire-speed throughput and hardware-accelerated AES IPSec VPN, load balancing and failover. Customers can choose a hardware appliance, a virtualization environment or a standard server hardware solution, all of which offer identical security, performance and management capabilities. A free evaluation copy is available for download from Halon Security's Web site.
