Re:Need secure firewall for SOHO

From: Ghaith Nasrawi (libero_at_aucegypt.edu)
Date: 02/03/05

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To: "Jim.DAmbrosia" <Jim.DAmbrosia@montgomerycollege.edu>

    why doesn't he connect a switch to one of the Linksys LAN ethernet
    ports? Thus, you get more available ports to be used!

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    From : "DAmbrosia, Jim" Jim.DAmbrosia@montgomerycollege.edu
    To : security-basics@securityfocus.com
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    Date : Tue, 1 Feb 2005 08:47:12 -0500
    Subject : Need secure firewall for SOHO

    > To the group,
    >
    > I have a colleague who has a SOHO network using ADSL. He is using a
    standard Linksys router for his firewall, but has reached a limit in
    the number of ports it can open and manage. I don't have one on hand
    to check, but evidently the Linksys only has ten slots to configure
    ports to be opened and he needs 12-15 or so.
    >
    > Without a lot of money he wants to get a different firewall up and
    running that has more ports that it can manage.
    > I suggested the free version of zone alarm as the only free one I'm
    aware of; however it turns out that he wrote his thesis on how you can
    crack zone alarm.
    >
    > Looking for another much more secure solution?
    >
    > Thanks,
    >
    > Jim,
    >
    >
    >
    >

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    parts it from an imaginary period known as the
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    the other Hope flies with a free wing, beckoning
    to temples of success and bowers of ease. Yet the
    Past is the Future of yesterday, the Future is the
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    and the dream. (The Devil's Dictionary)

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