recommend hardware firewall

[Dave Ihnat]

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