[PLUG] Firewall Suggestions

J Henshaw jeff at jhenshaw.com
Tue Jul 16 14:10:02 UTC 2002


----- Original Message -----
From: "Roderick A. Anderson" <raanders at acm.org>
To: <plug at lists.pdxlinux.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 8:58 PM
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Firewall Suggestions


> On 16 Jul 2002, Cooper Stevenson wrote:
>
> > All;
> >
> > I have been given the task of recommending and implementing a firewall
> > for a local business. What are your experiences/suggestions?
>
> You've got lots of software solutions based on Linux suggested.  So I'll
> offer a hardware solution.
>    I am pretty happy with my Asante FriendlyNet firewall.  There is a
> bunch of features I haven't been able to try yet (connected to a modem for
> a dialup connection right now) but when my iDSL connection gets here I'll
> be playing with it for sure.  The Asante is pretty easy to set up because
> of it's web-based interface but the down side is it is very image
> intensive so using links or lynx doesn't work very well if at all.  I plan
> to make a suggestion to Asante about this.
>
>
> Rod

I'd have to agree with Rod wholeheartily here,  like,  unless you have old
486's and just want to putz with linux for self-edification  get a Dlink,
Netgear, or what he uses,  you CANNOT go wrong, and it's much much quieter
and cooler and smaller etc!!

jH







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