What firewall/router can people suggest, when there is also a DMZ
(server) involved?

As good as ipcop is as personal firewall for a simple adsl setup, and
with nice eye candy for setup, it falls much short of expectations:
* No traffic shaping on the DMZ.
* No egress filtering on the DMZ. If the server gets hacked, you're
  spamming at maximum bandwidth[1]. Is this a total joke or what?
* On a test box with 2 network cards for internal and DMZ, with an
  external interface declared to be a modem but that's not set up, ipcop
  fails to set up any forwarding rules between LAN/server. Does this
  mean if the internet link goes down, internal users can't reach the
  server any more? Is this another joke?
After many favourable mentions on this list of ipcop, I am distinctly
unimpressed (and wasted a day on it). There are "addons" available which
do above first 2 points, marked in bold as "unofficial", "may/will
compromise your security", bla bla, all not inspiring confidence.

Any better suggestions much appreciated.

Thanks,

Volker

[1] On Telstra, that is currently 2 megabits per second, and *very*
expensive if continued for a month.

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