RE: Shuttle & via epia... now firewalls

[Frost Neil <Neil.Frost@xxxxxxx>]

As an aside, 

What would the best firewall be to run on a pc (windows or Linux)

Neil

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Harrison [mailto:Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx] 
Sent: 10 July 2002 13:46
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Shuttle & via epia... now firewalls


Tony,

I sort of agree and disagree with what you say:


I agree with you that a Via board is ludicrously overpowered for running
th=
e
firewall for a domestic LAN on broadband. A second-hand P90 with a 10Mb
HDD=
would be fine, and should come in about =A330 in a local PC fair.

I disagree that the solution is to run other services on a firewall. PC
hardware is _not_ capable of serving firewall functions as well as
serving<=
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resources to the internal network.

If you are going to go to the trouble of having a firewall, then do it
properly. Don't compromise it by adding lots of security holes.

Mark


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