Re: Need secure firewall for SOHO

["James D. Fryman" <James () credcontrol com>]

If I'm not correct, he's looking for more available slots for port 
forwarding.

Here may be a silly idea, depending on the model Linksys, going out and 
getting modified firmware running Linux. iptables at your fingers, with 
minimal hardware costs. I've had minimal experience with this, but it 
seems like a good solution if he's happy with the linksys product as of 
yet, just out of available config options.

Cheers!
-James

Ghaith Nasrawi wrote:
> why doesn't he connect a switch to one of the Linksys LAN ethernet
> ports? Thus, you get more available ports to be used!
>
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> > From      : "DAmbrosia, Jim" Jim.DAmbrosia () montgomerycollege edu
> To          : security-basics () securityfocus com
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> Date      : Tue, 1 Feb 2005 08:47:12 -0500
> Subject : Need secure firewall for SOHO
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> > 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,
>
>
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