Residential firewall appliance recommendation?

Technomage technomage-hawke at cox.net
Sun Sep 25 01:52:44 MST 2005


a couple of them are fairly cheap at fry's (about $50.00). one is a Dlink. the 
other is manufactured by trendware.

both are pretty good and drop in workable

On Saturday 24 September 2005 14:54, Alan Dayley wrote:
> My father needs a firewall/NAT appliance on his Cox connection.  We have
> an old box I attempted to put IPCop on today but it is failing in various
> ways (hard drive failure, then not, then CD-ROM not reading, then does,
> random).  It is not worth messing with any more, IMO.  (166MHz AMD cpu,
> and other oldness)
>
> So, I wanted to find a firewall/NAT router appliance that we could just go
> buy and be done with it.  It will have two computers behind it on a Cox
> residential broadband connection.  Wireless not needed.
>
> I know the usual choices, I just thought I'd ask the group for opinions on
> security and reliability.  Which one(s) are the better of the devices
> available?
>
> Alan
>
>
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