Re: Hardware Firewall Articles?

From: Jeff Gaines (whitedragon101_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 01/21/05


Date: 21 Jan 2005 09:24:22 GMT

On 20/01/2005 Wolfgang Kueter wrote:

> Jeff Gaines wrote:
>
>
> > I have temporarily installed Norton Personal Firewall on all 4 PC's
> > to give me some protection,
>
> crap.

You should write reviews for PC Mags :-)
Agnitum is getting some good reviews over here.

> > I have one PC, a 2.4GHz P4, that I could use as a h/w firewall,
> > presumably with Linux rather than Windows for extra security.
>
> What do you want to filter with that? Gigabit ethernet with hundreds
> of machines on both sides of the box? A 2.4 GHz CPU is even more than
> complete overkill for that purpose, an old 486 will do for that.

Well, my network may grow :-)

I have that box unused so if I did set up a h/w firewall I might as
well make use of it.

-- 
Jeff Gaines
Posted with XanaNews 1.17.1.2


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