On Sunday 14 December 2003 11:14 pm, JoeHill wrote: > Actually, no one recommended an "appliance". I recommended that the OP > invest about 50 - 100 bucks in a used machine, and for sheer ease of use > and features, you simply cannot beat something like Smoothwall. Built in > features such as Snort IDS, VPN, Web Proxy, dynamic DNS, *and* it supports > forwarding by range, not just by port. All this by simply booting from a > CD.
One correction. I, in fact recommended a router/firewall appliance. I made that recommendation based on the poster's situation having a single primary machine and currently using MS OS and Kerio or some other type of personal firewall software on the primary target machine. Based upon that situation, I stand by my original recommendation that the easiest/cheapest method to implement security is through a router/firewall appliance. To answer Lyvim's original point, either a Linksys, Dlink, or Netgear appliance will all allow opening up ranges of ports rather than just single ports. I know this positively because my ftp server is setup to allow passive transfers on a range of ports (thanks Anne). Since I was who Lyvim was posting the answer too, some of that venom should have been directed to me. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer
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