Subject: Re: Firewalls
From: Eric Woods (woodse@alum.rpi.edu)
Date: Mon Aug 06 2001 - 12:22:07 MDT
At 01:00 PM 8/6/2001, cdowns wrote:
>HuH ? Why ? sounds like a poor administrative way out of holding an on the
>job retirement postion with minimal effort and a closed source product you
>have no control over....
Ah, but not all of us want to be experts in sys admin and I'll say that my
linksys router/hub is tremendous. Plenty of configurability and, after a
year and a half in continual use, rock solid. And the firewall
capabilities are substantially undersold -- it's the main reason I got it
in the first place.
Also, the power/fan noise footprint of that little box is substantially
smaller than a full machine with hard drives and hot chips. If you're not
interested in leaving your linux box on 100% of the time, it's a fabulous
solution.
I could have spent probably several hundred dollars in my own precious time
getting a linux firewall configured properly to protect itself and my
LAN. Instead I spent $150 and haven't had to fuss with a thing.
- Eric
>"Paul J. Lucas" wrote:
>>On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Robert Brandtjen wrote:
>>
>> > Can anyone make a recommendation?
>>
>> Yes: buy a combo router/hub box for a couple hundred, plug it
>> in, and admin it through a web interface. I love Linux, but I
>> don't see the point of using it for a small LAN gateway and
>> dealing with IP chain configs when a cheap, off-the-shelf
>> product works just fine.
>>
>> - Paul
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