Re: Need secure firewall for SOHO

["Hiroaki Kondo" <hackman () venus dti ne jp>]

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "DAmbrosia, Jim" <Jim.DAmbrosia () montgomerycollege edu>
To: <security-basics () securityfocus com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 10:47 PM
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,