On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Oppermann, Brian wrote:
> I was hoping someone could turn me on to an inexpensive firewall appliance
> (I really don't have the room to put up another PC, monitor, etc. right now)
> with a very good firewall that includes Stateful Packet Inspection and
> limited VPN preferably. Preferably ICSA Labs certified.
For a disclaimer see note [1]
Just in case you're not aware, currently certified firewall products are
listed at:
http://www.icsalabs.com/html/communities/firewalls/certification/vendors/index.shtml
We also offer a Firewall Buyer's Guide (in hardcopy AFAIK) off a link from
the side of that page under "Firewall Links" that might be useful.
Also, I don't know if you're aware that Linux and most the *BSDs can be
booted "headless" with a serial port set up for console access after
you've installed and configured them. That saves a monitor, keyboard and
mouse, and you can use a terminal program on your main machine to
adminsiter the box.
> Because I already have the Linksys, it only needs 2 ethernet ports, one to
> the modem, one to the Linksys at 10MB. It doesn't have to do DHCP or
> anything real fancy from the network end. I essentially just need a good
> firewall.
If it's not doing DHCP and you don't have a static address from your
provider, you'll need something that works in completely transparent mode.
Otherwise, you'll want something that does NAT and acts as a DHCP client.
HTH,
Paul
[1] TruSecure Corporation is my employer, ICSA Labs is a division of
TruSecure, so people wanting ICSA Certified Firewalls makes me happy.
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