David,
PMII.. IS a Unlimited A little over kill for a personal network? I know that the
Unlimited units are
really expensive? Why did you go with such an expensive unit for home use?
Flame suit very close at hand if needed.<G>
Steven
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On 12/28/2000 at 21:00 David Friedman wrote:
>I'm normally a lurker.
>
>I have a SonicWALL DMZ Unlimited W/VPN. It more than amply protects my SOHO
>office with machines on the DMZ and a secure LAN segment.
>
>I would highly recommend it (even with the comments about the DOS problem).
>I use it to keep intruders out! And for me, it has for about 2 years.
>
>I do not run a mission critical Web Site, and I'm sure that no one will hit
>me DOS attack.
>
>I also would not use a SOHO device for a Medium or larger Corporate entity.
>For that I would use a larger commercial device, or a configurable firewall
>with more sophisticated ACL's.
>
>
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>Of course one could also purchase the Tiny Firewall..:)
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>
>
>At 03:50 PM 12/28/00 -0800, Dave Laird wrote:
>>Good afternoon, J...
>>
>>On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, j wrote:
>>
>> > 4. No linux box solution please. Must be "simple" to setup. I don't mind
>> > configuring tcp/ip address' or playing with ports but I don't want to
>have
>> > to buy another mobo, cpu, mem to build a computer with( yes I can here
>> those
>> > people screaming for a small 486/PPro to do this, but not on this case).
>>
>>I'll take the disclaimer that I am speaking out of class perhaps, even
>>perhaps over my head, but a "Linux solution" can be as simple as one
>>motherboard, 2 NIC cards and RedHat 7.0 and still be quite effective. I
>>believe the minimum standard configuration I have seen this type of system
>>work was a Pentium 200 w/64 M of RAM, 2 NIC cards and a healthy dose of
>>ipchains. Last time I looked it had an uptime of over a year and still
>>standing.
>>
>>Of course, your results may differ.
>>
>>Dave
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>>
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