LinkSys has some good basic products that are priced around $110 and $170.
Like I said, these are basic and dont provide features like stateful packet
inspection, filters based on TCP/UDP, etc. I also believe they have a limit
of something like 10 ports active per connection unless you do a
passthrough, but that sort of defeats the purpose of the firewall.
Watchguard also makes a product that I think is better, but it costs about
$370. It provides both NAT and PAT, and you can filter based on
source/destination addresses and port numbers. The first year of "managed
security" is also provided... although giving up control has overtones of
Big Brother.... but hey... its a service for people that dont know
firewalls. They also offer web filtering with the product with like 14
different categories... good if you have kids that use the net.
Ed
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