RE: Shuttle & via epia... now firewalls

["Mark Harrison" <Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx>]

Neil,

The best free firewall would be ipcop. (www.ipcop.org)

It is Linux, but it's an "all in one" install, so it will install= the (stripped down, patched, hardended) Linux it needs for you.

If you have (lots of) money to throw at the problem, go for Checkpoint Fire= wall-1.

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Frost Neil [mailto:Neil.Frost@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 10 July 2002 13:48
To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Shuttle & via epia... now firewalls


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<= BR> 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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