Router/Firewall Recommendation

[Mike Burger]

On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Mark Dadgar wrote:

> On Jun 22, 2004, at 11:48 AM, Otto Haliburton wrote:
> > Just a thought, IMHO if you use a inksys router with nat then you do 
> > have a
> > firewall, in fact a very effective hardware firewall.  I don't think 
> > you can
> > get better performance and security at the same time.  I would put all 
> > my
> > computers behind the linksys router and forget it.
> 
> I agree.  You've got a purpose-built appliance device instead of a 
> general-use OS with all of it's myriad exploits.
> 
> Just run the hardware firewall and forget about it.

Well, that really does depend on just what you want to do, and how in 
depth you want your firewalling to be.
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