Router-Gateway-Firewall solution for less than 150??

Heh, guess I should have been more clear on "big vendors" - cisco,
checkpoint etc.

-dallas

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryan Sutherland" <ryans@syscon4u.biz>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 4:15 PM
Subject: RE: Router-Gateway-Firewall solution for less than 150??

> Well actually there is one product I remember seeing at
> Fried Electronics (Baseline location) for several
> hundred dollars that did every thing firewall, proxy,
> web server, mail server, etc..    Has any one here
> ever tried out one of these all in one appliances?
> Sorry I can't remember the name of it now.

>
> -Ryan
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Dallas
> Helquist
> Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 4:04 PM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: Router-Gateway-Firewall solution for less than 150??
>
>
> Others have stated this already, but here it is in one email:
>
> If what you are looking for is strictly a firewall (something to
> block/filter incoming and outgoing traffic), you should look for
something
> that does only that. Adding other things to this "firewall" - no matter
how
> convienent they may be - is just asking for trouble. Ever wonder why the
> big vendors don't sell firewall products that are also the company
> mail/web/file server? They aren't stupid.
>
> Now, the above rant aside...most home users want more functionality from
> their firewall device than just packet filtering. I use mine for web,
> email, samba etc. It's a dual 133 with a few nics in it - total cost
> including hub was $40.00US. I put redhat7.2 on it, cleaned up the rc3.d
> directory, set up a simple iptables ruleset. Instant firewall, albeit not
> very secure. I also don't run anything behind it besides my home
> machines..and everything there is easy to recover.
>
> Windows has some alternatives as well that I have seen used with a fair
> amount of success:
>
> wingate - www.wingate.net
> internet gate - www.maccasoft.com/igate/
>
> And there are more, though most seem to work around via being a proxy or
> transperant proxy. I believe that e-smith does this as well -
transparently
> proxies everything through squid.
>
> Anyways - good luck.
>
> -dallas
>
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