Ken Hokugo wrote:
Dean or anyone,
Would the firewall feature in these routers (wireless or wired) be good enough so that I can get rid of Zonealarm Pro which contributes 10 to 15% more of CPU usage when playing Slimserver? If I could get rid of the sw based firewall, that would be great.
A particularly powerful and flexible firewall is a Linux box with multiple Ethernet interfaces. If you'd rather not dedicate a full-blown PC to the job, Soekris Engineering (www.soekris.com) makes a line of single-board PC-compatible machines specifically designed as network engines. They come without any software, so you have to roll your own, but there are many people who can help you.
http://leaf.sourceforge.net provides a number of very nice pre-rolled Linux firewall distributions which are well-suited for use on Soekris.
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