I agree with the lack of correspondence between money and quality. We have
found very little (although some managerial) advantage to using Checkpoint
Firewall-1 (~$3100/mo) over OpenBSD/IPFilter (free/donation). In fact, I
personally prefer the latter given the wide variety of old hardware lying
around that you can throw it on.
The obvious offset of using OpenBSD is the learning curve. But, in my
humble opinion, it is well worth it, and the default install of OpenBSD is
widely regarded as infalliable (having no known remote exploit since
1997).
Just my 2c.
Regards,
Brian
> A true firewall is available from www.tinysoftware.com it's called tiny
> firewall, and has configurable rules/filtering, port blocking, and loggin.
> It's only $29.95. Macafee personal firewall formerly conseal private desktop
> is only $39.95 and is also much better and a true firewall. Zonealarm is
> much better than blackice and it's free.
>
> So as for getting what you pay for, I disagree. Clearly, better products are
> available for the same price point or free in the case of zonealarm.
>
> Jamy
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