Once upon a time, Joe Greco <jgr...@ns.sol.net> said: > Everyone knows a NAT gateway isn't really a firewall, except more or less > accidentally. There's no good way to provide a hardware firewall in an > average residential environment that is not a disaster waiting to happen.
I don't think hardware vs. software makes a "real" firewall. A NAT gateway has to have all the basic functionality of a stateful firewall, plus packet mangling. Typical home NAT gateways don't have all the configurability of an SSG or such, but the same basic functionality is there. -- Chris Adams <cmad...@hiwaay.net> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
