Re: Need secure firewall for SOHO

[Barrie Dempster <barrie () reboot-robot net>]

On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 08:47 -0500, DAmbrosia, Jim 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,

http://www.ipcop.org/
http://www.smoothwall.org/
http://www.astaro.com/

Any of these on an old machine and a cheap switch/hub makes an excellent
firewall.

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With Regards..
Barrie Dempster (zeedo) - Fortiter et Strenue

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