RE: Creating a hardware Firewall

2004-02-16 Thread Preston Boyington
-Original Message- From: David Clymer Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 12:41 PM On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 11:49, Bojan Baros wrote: Hello. I am looking into creating a firewall for my home network. So far I have a simple Internet router (Netgear) that protects my win and deb

Re: Creating a hardware Firewall

2004-02-16 Thread Jack Carroll
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 11:49:54AM -0500, Bojan Baros wrote: Hello. I am looking into creating a firewall for my home network. So far I have a simple Internet router (Netgear) that protects my win and deb boxes, but I would like to replace it with something more substantial. I did

Creating a hardware Firewall

2004-02-12 Thread Bojan Baros
Hello. I am looking into creating a firewall for my home network. So far I have a simple Internet router (Netgear) that protects my win and deb boxes, but I would like to replace it with something more substantial. My requirements are: - CD or Floppy bootable - Ease of configuration (no time

Re: Creating a hardware Firewall

2004-02-12 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 11:49:54AM -0500, Bojan Baros wrote: Well, after searching, I narrowed my choices to freesco ( http://www.freesco.org ) and LEAF ( http://leaf.sf.net ). Obviously, there might be some more that I am unaware off. I think

Re: Creating a hardware Firewall

2004-02-12 Thread Bojan Baros
Hi Bojan, Which netgear router is it? Has it got a built in firewall? I bet it has. Use that. If your router hasnt got a built in firewall you can get one from amazon for £50- or so that has. It will probably be more secure than a linux firewall. (dons fireproof suit - I might be wrong