recommend hardware firewall
Dave Ihnat
dihnat at dminet.com
Sun Apr 4 19:32:30 UTC 2010
On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 03:26:52PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> I see no benefit to a hardware router vs. running Linux with the firewall
> configured.
Well, yes, there is. Two different platforms, different firewalls, mean
that no single attack vector can be used on both of them.
I wouldn't recommend the BEFSR41 line, though. Get a WRT54G/WRT54GL and
load either Tomato or DD-WRT. Much more capable than the native
firmware, and free to boot. (Or to run...joke...)
> There are good, free, firewall packages you can run on a cheap machine.
That's effectively what you're doing with the free firmware on
commercial firewalls, without the need to maintain another full OS and
usually in a very much smaller physical package.
$0.02, YMMV, etc.
Cheers,
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Dave Ihnat
dihnat at dminet.com
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