Router/Firewall Recommendation

[Ward William E DLDN]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Otto Haliburton [mailto:ottohaliburton at comcast.net]
> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 2:18 AM
> To: 'General Red Hat Linux discussion list'
> Subject: RE: Router/Firewall Recommendation

> glad you have the time and energy to do what you do and it 
> works for you.
> With all the maintenance and stuff, I am glad you have the 
> time to do it and
> I can tell you are deep into it.  For $40 dollars, I can put 
> my computers
> behind a firewall and forget about it cause it ain't going to 
> be hacked by
> anybody and it has good performance and reliability.  So if 
> you got the time
> and stuff, that is good for you.  Are you more secure no. I mean large
> corporations would have a perfect solution with your hook up 
> but they are
> very vulnerable with this setup.  Routers have their problems 
> and in to
> enable certain features you can open up, but for all 
> practical purposes
> individuals don't need to do that.  So for the cost factor 
> you can't beat
> the hardware router.  Cheers!!


And for $0, you can download IPCop and do the same with a
donated computer, which IS a hardware firewall; it's slightly
less "Fire and Forget", but it's also a world more powerful,
and a world more secure.  BTW, NAT as security is the same
security you get from using Microsoft Windows: Security by
Obscurity.  If you think that's the be all, end all, then
why are you on a Linux mailing list?

BTW, time to install an IPCop from Scratch: ~10 minutes.  Time
to reinstall, and reconfigure: ~10 minutes+15 seconds.  Time
to configure a Firewall Brick: ~10 minutes (sometimes more; some
of them are poorly configured, and require constant reboots of
teh brick everytime you change a setting).

Peace of Mind over having a REAL Firewall based on IPTables,
SQUID, SNORT, decent logging, etc., that I can configure to 
exactly the way I need, complete with DMZ, if needed: Priceless.

Bill Ward