Re: Linksys WRT54G and Firewall software

Leythos wrote:
I did give reasons, you just ignore them.

1) Holes in the XP Firewall that may or may not be present.

The may or may not be holes in NAT routers. Where is the difference? You rely on the proper implementation of the XP firewall or the NAT router.

2) Holes in the firewall (XP SP2) put there by accident, by applications,
by users that don't understand.

3) File and printer sharing enabled on a public connection....

The XP SP2 FW set to no exception with the user running as limited user cannot be changed by accident or intentionally to allow any application or file sharing on any connection.

And "users that don't understand" are no argument in a comparison what is objectively better. If you want to talk about the users and what they do we would first have to define what "users" we are talking about, their knowledge and willingness to learn.

Are you really that ignorant of the modern NAT Routers that vendors
mistakenly call Firewalls?

I am absolutely not ignorant. I have several and I even know what they are running inside. I also know that NAT as concept is bound to have troubles at times, in particular if you are having many computers behind the NAT and you have heavy use of UDP to a few servers. It is easier with TCP but even then there are times when packets go through unsolicited (which occasionally makes a PFW running on a computer behind the NAT router think it is attacked and blocks everything).

Gerald
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