Re: Lightweight standalones? WAS: BlackIce Defender???

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You are in luck - there are handfuls... Look at the catalogue of any of the
router manufactures and you will see them... Generally thay are an
"upgrade" version of their normal remote access product. Ascend seems to
have a nice one - though I've never tried it YMMV.


Mind you with the descending cost of PC hardware today - setting up FWTK on
an old PC is reasonable - so long as you have the floorspace :}..

Cheers,

Bret


At 11:21 29/10/99 -0400, you wrote:
> I've never heard of such a thing, but are there any little (desktop) 2-port
> standalone firewalls available?  I would think with the growing popularity
> of cable and DSL access that such a thing would be quite practical, and IMO
> setting up a *nix-based PC for the task seems like overkill.  All it would
> need is 2 ports, an RS-232 and some firmware.  I personally don't even have
> any need for NAT but I would prefer to move the filtering off my PC to a
> separate box.
>
> I checked the Nokia site and it seems like their low-end standalone is close
> to what I'm describing, but I'm guessing it still costs quite a bit.
>
> Sean
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