Advantages of a hardware firewall

From: Mark Guzowski (Guzowski_Mark@MSN.baz)
Date: 08/12/02 

From: "Mark Guzowski" <Guzowski_Mark@MSN.baz>
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 20:39:23 -0400

XP has some darn nice stuff in it. ...and, if you use a domain it has even more. One of the serious advantages a hardware firewall
has over a software firewall though is that the former can be utterly virus-proof, if configured properly.

> If you use XP & want a stateful firewall, ICF isn't bad - and indeed it works with IPSec/Kerberos, two factor authentication, etc.
> Check out Q298804 if you have multiple machines (such as a domain). Free stateful firewalls that work in high-end environments
> are kind of rare. Not all the goodies of the PIX 501, but boy is the price nice.

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