Re: Most Popular Hardware Firewalls?

First of all, yes. NAT firewall in my world aren't really firewalls.
The protection they provide is too limited and pratcically non-existant
when it comes to outgoing traffic. Also, a firewall is not everything
in life, even if it's a stateful inspection one. It's important to look
at the whole network security picture. Do you need antivirus on the
gateway? It's always a good idea as it can protect you from virus
outbreaks in case your desktop AV is not up to date. What about secure
remote access to your network? And intrustion prevention? Bandwidth
shaping? Web filtering for the kids?

Home users who understand a thing or two about network security and
have more than one machine in the home network often opt for a statful
inspection firewall in an appliance rather than purchase a simple
router then heaps of locally installed software to meet the rest of the
vendor needs.

You can see just about all firewall vendors here:
http://www.firewall.com/Vendors/

.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: firewall help
    ... > Holly Mooney wrote: ... > The personal firewall is not safe but only for personal use. ... I like Tiny Personal Firewall from www.tinysoftware.com. ... quoted from foolscap tomes, | Network Security Officer, ...
    (comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.security)
  • Re: network security sysctl mibs
    ... Subject: network security sysctl mib's ... > These deal with how packets entering the FBSD system are handled by ... > in the kernel, as they relate to IPFW or IPFILTER ... > is handed off to the firewall or after the firewall has done ...
    (freebsd-questions)
  • Re: N00b Question
    ... as was mentioned this can be done at the port level. ... >> I am very new to the firewall and network security world. ... >> situation wherein I need to block webbased email access and the ability ...
    (Security-Basics)
  • RE: Connection attempt to TCP messages in /var/log/messages
    ... The log-in-vain MIB is an poor mans version of an firewall. ... enable IPFW or IPFILTER this MIB and the other network security ... >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to ...
    (freebsd-questions)
  • N00b Question
    ... I am very new to the firewall and network security world. ... situation wherein I need to block webbased email access and the ability ...
    (Security-Basics)