Re: Higher-End Home FW Question

From: Leythos (void_at_nowhere.org)
Date: 12/10/04 

Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 21:58:14 GMT

In article <R-mdndnbc5bilifcRVn-uQ@comcast.com>, charlesnewman1
@comcast.net.spammers.will.be.shot.on.sight says...
> I advocate ICS, becuase it is
> very much like what I was taught when I was in college. They did not
> teach about hardware firewalls, becuase we were taught that software
> based NAT and firewalls were superior.

And a lot of what you were taught in College concerning computers is
currently out-dated, in fact, much of what it taught in College is out
of date while it's being taught.

Firewall appliances are superior for home users and unmanaged
environments, and even in most managed environments, as the primary
border protection device.

Since we're talking about home systems in this thread, we'll talk about
firewall software running on a system that the user is also running
their applications from - which means that the firewall/NAT can be
compromised easily and is also subject to daily misconfiguration by the
user.

If the user were running an appliance, even a simple NAT box, the user
would not be subjected to daily misconfiguration problems, daily chances
of compromising the appliance from the workstation, and would not be
spending valuable CPU cycles to maintain the firewall state. 

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