Router/Firewall Recommendation

[Otto Haliburton]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts
> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 8:58 AM
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Re: Router/Firewall Recommendation
> 
> On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 09:15:17AM -0400, Ted Beaton wrote:
> > Nope, then you buy a cheap hub or switch.  Anywhere from 4 port and up.
> Can
> > get them pretty cheap off EBay.
> 
> And if you decide you want GigE on the inside instead of 100mbps, then
> the LBB isn't going to help you anyway.  An 8-port GigE switch is under
> $100 these days and many systems are coming with onboard GigE interfaces
> (like my Dell PowerEdge 400SC).
> 
> Although the LBB boxes are fast and easy to set up and do the job for
> most people most of the time, they're certainly not as flexible as a
> real firewall implementation running on Linux, OpenBSD, or any number of
> other systems (I know somebody who's firewall is actually OpenVMS).
> 
>         .../Ed
> 
> --
I don't know that small user are looking for a lot of flexibility.  Think
about it.  You aren't trying to design a system for 250+ users(LBB's as you
say can be chained to handle less than that quite simply).  For a normal
user with 5-50 pc's that's trying to protect their system there is nothing
cheaper or better than a hardware router.  When you start getting into a lot
of sophisticated apps then yes go to a box, but I would put that box behind
a hardware router to prevent penetration.