[KLUG Members] Broadband firewalls.

[Buist Justin]

Cisco has some 800 series routers too that are just plain ethernet based.  I've actually got an 806 laying around that I traded some work for a while back that I'll be hooking up.  You can grab one off E-bay for 400-500 dollars from what I remember.  It's not a bad little thing to play with so far, and it's kind of nice to have a full IOS machine sitting in your home to play with and keep yourself familiar with it -- at least that's how I'm justifying it to myself.

Should knock the socks off those Linksys things that I've had a lot of dealings with.  I'm not too happy with them, really.  They seem kind of "shaky" at times.  If you keep your eye on Bugtraq too you see an awful lot of vulnerabilities posted about these devices as they become insanely popular too w/ broadband users.

I ran a semi-dedicated Linux firewall for quite some time at a previous place of residence.  Worked okay there, because the server sat in an upstairs hallway where the noise wasn't a big deal.  That's my biggest reason -not- to use a PC for a dedicated firewall.  Too much buzzing and whirring for me.

Justin Buist


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bryan J. Smith [mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org]
> Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 3:16 PM
> To: members@kalamazoolinux.org; Tahnesha Pinckney
> Cc: b.j.smith@ieee.org; members@kalamazoolinux.org
> Subject: [KLUG Members] Re: Nautilus in RH 7.3 and Samba
> shares...revisited... -- certs, IPCop ...
[snip]
> Well, even the low-end, limited ones (DLink, Linksys, etc...) 
> cost ~$100-200. 
> The "mid-range" ones from SonicWall (VxWorks-based) and 
> WatchGuard (Linux-based)
> are $500-5,000.