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Re: Need secure firewall for SOHO
From: Rob Creely <programmingart () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 23:52:18 -0500
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 15:29:35 -0500, dallas jordan <dallas.jordan () gmail com> wrote:
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: dallas jordan <dallas.jordan () gmail com> Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 15:28:55 -0500 Subject: Re: Need secure firewall for SOHO To: "DAmbrosia, Jim" <Jim.DAmbrosia () montgomerycollege edu> 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 a standard 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 and running that has more ports that it can manage. I suggested the free version of zone alarm as the only free one I'm aware 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,
How about Ipcop: http://www.ipcop.org or Smoothwall Express: http://www.smoothwall.org/, Both can run quite well on a old Pentium box. Cheers. --Rob Creely
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- Need secure firewall for SOHO DAmbrosia, Jim (Feb 02)
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- Fwd: Need secure firewall for SOHO dallas jordan (Feb 02)
- RE: Need secure firewall for SOHO James McGee (Feb 03)
- Re: Need secure firewall for SOHO Jonathan Nichols (Feb 04)
- Re: Need secure firewall for SOHO Rob Creely (Feb 03)
- Fwd: Need secure firewall for SOHO dallas jordan (Feb 02)
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- Re: Need secure firewall for SOHO Sebastian (Feb 03)
- Re: Need secure firewall for SOHO Paul O'Malley (Feb 03)
- Re: Need secure firewall for SOHO Glenn English (Feb 03)
- Re: Need secure firewall for SOHO Barrie Dempster (Feb 03)
- Re: Need secure firewall for SOHO Hiroaki Kondo (Feb 04)
- Re: Need secure firewall for SOHO Wilson Mosquera Q. (Feb 07)
- Re: Need secure firewall for SOHO xyberpix (Feb 04)
- Re: Need secure firewall for SOHO Rob Turner (Feb 07)
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- RE: Need secure firewall for SOHO Beauford, Jason (Feb 03)
- RE: Need secure firewall for SOHO Bryan S. Sampsel (Feb 03)