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Re: Need secure firewall for SOHO
From: dallas jordan <dallas.jordan () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 20:54:20 -0500
Jim, I dont believe OpenBSD has a GUI for its firewall configuration. I could be wrong. I've just always edited the config file. It's pretty easy to set up a basic firewall and the documentation on the Openbsd website is really good. There may be some 3rd party xwindows gui you could find. Plus, OpenBSD is "out of the box" really secure. On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 16:40:31 -0500, DAmbrosia, Jim <Jim.DAmbrosia () montgomerycollege edu> wrote:
Hi Dallas, I'll point him in that direction. I briefly looked at the website and was curious. Does it have and xwindows interface for operations and configuration? Thanks, Jim, -----Original Message----- From: dallas jordan [mailto:dallas.jordan () gmail com] Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 3:29 PM To: DAmbrosia, Jim Subject: Re: Need secure firewall for SOHO Jim, He can run OpenBSD on a fairly low power pc and it will do just fine. Then he can us a 16 port switch for his clients. That would be fairly cheap and OpenBSD is an excellent firewall, both performance and security wise. On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 08:47:12 -0500, DAmbrosia, Jim <Jim.DAmbrosia () montgomerycollege edu> wrote:To the group, I have a colleague who has a SOHO network using ADSL. He is using astandard Linksys router for his firewall, but has reached a limit in the number of ports it can open and manage. I don't have one on hand to check, but evidently the Linksys only has ten slots to configure ports to be opened and he needs 12-15 or so.Without a lot of money he wants to get a different firewall up andrunning that has more ports that it can manage.I suggested the free version of zone alarm as the only free one I'maware of; however it turns out that he wrote his thesis on how you can crack zone alarm.Looking for another much more secure solution? Thanks, Jim,-- Dallas Jordan CCNA, CISSP Ernst & Young LLP Security & Technology Solutions (STS) Office: 404-817-5940 Mobile: 404-274-2649 EY/Comm: 7455673 E-mail: Dallas.Jordan () ey com
-- Dallas Jordan CCNA, CISSP Ernst & Young LLP Security & Technology Solutions (STS) Office: 404-817-5940 Mobile: 404-274-2649 EY/Comm: 7455673 E-mail: Dallas.Jordan () ey com
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