What kind of firewall do you use?

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Ime

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Software? Hardware? Both? What kind? How good is it? Would you recommend it?

I'll start off.

Software based firewall, none. I am considering ZoneAlarm.

Hardware based firewall, 2Wire Homeportal 100.

My Homeportal passes the GRC tests with flying colors (I'm not saying I can't be hacked though). It's been a very realiable unit for the past year.

I wouldn't recommend it, however. It seems the company (2Wire) is slowly going out of business.
 
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yellowperil

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NAT firewall on D-Link DI-604 and Tiny Personal Firewall. Haven't been hacked (yet). Tiny freezes my system for a few seconds on startup but it works well.
 
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bmacd

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hardware, belkin thing on my 4 port cable router
software, on a linux box set up for firewalling (setup by my friend)

-=bmacd=-
 
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The way things are going, I think you'll see more and more hardware firewalls being used. Viruses are getting better and better at knocking out software based firewalls. Bugbear is the latest to do so.
 
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Goosemaster

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I AM using norton security on my pc but will soon add a smoothwall hardware-firewall box (FREE BABY!!!)


At the moment I have "technically" one subnet.


Dsl goes to my 4-port router and two of those go to me and my room-ates pcs. Th other rooms in our apartment house 3 other friends of mine. THey are all on a hub coming out of the 3rd router port. The forth will be a DMZ server for games or crap...


With all this I will need a NETWORK firewall so Smoothwall or something simple on a 486 is the ideal option.
 
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illusion88

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Norton Personal Firewall...

I would recomend it. Its easy to use and easy to set up. And I havnt had any real problems with it. I like it.
 
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FoBoT

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Originally posted by: Goosemaster
.....obviously Smoothwall looks better, but I would like vpn



Anyone care to comment on a coomparison?
Click to expand...

i had trouble with smoothwall and PPPoE
now that i have cable vice DSL, i guess i could try it again, but i really like my clarkconnect so i don't think i will
 
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ROTC1983

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Yeah, I am also using the one that came with XP. Anyone got any suggestions on better firewalls that are cheap or free? :D
 
NutBucket

NutBucket

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The DirectvDSL modem is a NAT in itself but I also have a Linksys hooked up as well.
 
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Electrode

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iptables

I really haven't set up any intrusion prevention rules on it yet, just basic IPMASQ stuff. I probably should sometime.

Also, I have it set to reject pings and restrict SYN packets. That will prevent my server from being used for DoS attacks, and should help it withstand being DoS'd directly.
 
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Fausto

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Linksys router for NAT + Norton Personal Firewall. Doesn't interfere with gaming/downloading and keeps the crap out.
 
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Kaervak

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Firewall that my DI-614+ has & ZoneAlarm 3.0. I don't need to use ZA, but with the way things are, little extra security is a good thing.
 
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nord1899

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Netgear FR314 - Hardware router/firewall. Cable modem internet connection.

You should see the log files it has on it. The number of sub7 and other attacks it blocks, whoa.
 
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