Fwd: Need secure firewall for SOHO

[dallas jordan <dallas.jordan () gmail com>]

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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,

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