Re: Most Popular Hardware Firewalls?

TechGrrl wrote:
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.

Why exactly should one try to filter outgoing traffic when such a thing
like tunneling exists?

What about secure remote access to your network?

That would need a gateway anyway.

And intrustion prevention?

Is usually impractical.

Bandwidth shaping?

That's a non-firewall feature.

Web filtering for the kids?

You mean "against 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.

Home users usually don't need a firewall at all.
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