Re:Need secure firewall for SOHO

["Ghaith Nasrawi" <libero () aucegypt edu>]

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

> 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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PAST, n.
That part of Eternity with some small fraction of
which we have a slight and regrettable
acquaintance. A moving line called the Present
parts it from an imaginary period known as the
Future. These two grand divisions of Eternity, of
which the one is continually effacing the other,
are entirely unlike. The one is dark with sorrow
and disappointment, the other bright with
prosperity and joy. The Past is the region of
sobs, the Future is the realm of song. In the one
crouches Memory, clad in sackcloth and ashes,
mumbling penitential prayer; in the sunshine of
the other Hope flies with a free wing, beckoning
to temples of success and bowers of ease. Yet the
Past is the Future of yesterday, the Future is the
Past of to-morrow. They are one -- the knowledge
and the dream. (The Devil's Dictionary)