Mr O wrote:
Anybody got recommendations, experience, comments, etc, on hardware firewalls? I'm sure they're all simple to deal with with the web interfaces and that's what the client needs.
I bought a Linksys appliance firewall many years ago. It was mostly trouble free. The only difficulty was that I had to use Windoze occasionally to reset it. It then set on the shelf for several years because I didn't have a WAN connection that could use it. A couple of months ago I got DSL, so I needed a firewall again. I tried powering it up, but the smoke seems to have leaked out over the years. No signs of life. I could have spent the time to come up to speed on iptables, but frankly I've found them intimidatingly difficult to follow. Getting it wrong could be costly and I really didn't have that much time available to learn it. I bought a new Linksys BEFSX41. They seem to have eliminated the need for Windoze. It is easy to set up and has worked flawlessly so far. -- Allen Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.peak.org/~abrown/ The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. --- Thomas Macaulay: History of England, I _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
