Can anyone recommend a "true" .......

[Vega]

firewall?

Where can I get it for a descent price?



-Thanks

 

[ScrapSilicon]

unplug your cable modem..

 

[Sunner]

True as in a mid-high end business solution, as opposed to $100 router/firewall/vpn/bit of everything?

OpenBSD makes an excellent firewall, the software is free, just get a reliable box to run it on, I run OBSD 3.0 on an old P2-233, does a very good job, including handling a VPN connection to work.

If you want something with commercial support, etc etc, as in you need it for your company or whatever.
Cisco have their PIX's.
There's Checkpoint with Firewall-1...but those are rather expensive.
Nokia has some good stuff that's based on FW-1, those are even more expensive than regular FW-1 though.

 

[arcenite]

Ifyour looking for a personal firewall, www.sygate.com.

Bill

 

[John]

Linksys BEFSR41 for ~50.00 is a good NAT box w/ decent firewall features.

 

[ScrapSilicon]

Originally posted by: John
Linksys BEFSR41 for ~50.00 is a good NAT box w/ decent firewall features.

according to his rig list ..

Originally posted by: ScrapSilicon
unplug your cable modem..

he has the Linksys

 

[lorlabnew]

Netgear has this fairly new, small and inexpensive RP614 ... for the price (around $50) it's a steal; you'll get 4-port switch, router and (NAT) firewall, all extremely easy to setup. It has supposedly some packet inspection as well, which I didn't try. I bought this unit for my father-in-law to protect his RR connection, smooth....

I use myself old Netgear RT314 for a couple of years, great box, never any problem.

You absolutely cannot get "true" hardware firewall for cheap, so assume these would be the devices you might wanna consider.

 

[Gunbuster]

I have an 3com officeconnect DMZ firewall, it works ok

Downside is it retails for around $1000

(I am going to try and sell it soon)

 

[jose]

What's wrong w/ your Linksys ?

You could get a free copy of RH7.3 Linux & configure your own firewall w/ either ipchains or iptables.

Regards,
Jose