Re: Need advice regarding Linux or Windows firewalls

[Joe Matuscak]

On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, mouss wrote:

> At 12:38 29/03/01 +1000, Andrew Raphael wrote:
> >Use your slowest, smallest spare machine to run GNATBox Light from
> >www.gnatbox.com and protect your DSL network immediately.  It's free,
> >supports 5 clients, and needs just 2 NIC cards and a floppy drive.
> >Then you can take your time evaluating the other suggestions on this
> >thread.
> 
> I will certainly not use a slow machine as a FW since that would slow
> my own network:) The fact that that would slow an intruder is of no
> use to me.

Actually, unless you have a way fast Internet connection, or are doing
VPN encryption, you really dont need a ton of CPU. A 486 running a
reasonably effcient OS (like the Gnatbox) will quite handily keep up with
a T1 line.

Joe Matuscak
Rohrer Corporation
717 Seville Road
Wadsworth, Ohio 44281
(330)335-1541
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