Software oder Hardware-Router: what´s more secure

From: Albert Warnecke (awa@bandikut.com)
Date: 04/26/02 

From: "Albert Warnecke" <awa@bandikut.com>
To: security-basics@securityfocus.com
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 09:26:25 +0200

Hi List,
this is my first post to the list.

I´ve a small network connected to the internet via DSL and a Zyxel-Router.
I´m happy with that, but friends, who are upgrading to DSL and begin building
their own networks are asking me:

Is it better to have a
- hardware router like a Zyxel or Netgear....
- software router like Winroute or LINUX-software

in terms of security.

I think both can be made secure, but for "normal" users a HW-router might be
better since they do NAT/PAT out of the box and are therefore quite secure.
So I recommend the HW-router.

What does the collective wisdom of the list say?

Thanks
Albert

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