On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 14:37:16 -0500 Fred Fraley disseminated the following: > Should I rely on a DSL gateway with NAT, or do I NEED a dedicated > destop for a firewall? > > I recently got DSL with a Westell Versalink 327W > modem/router/hub/gateway, which has a built in firewall with NAT.
The fact that the modem and firewall are in one box troubles me, though I cannot give you a specific reason why. I would be inclined to use the *modem* as a *modem* and then connect it to a real firewall. As Bjorn pointed out, IPCop is a good one, Smoothwall is another kick ass firewall, just boot from a CD and yer done: http://www.smoothwall.org/ If your old box you wanna use as a firewall can't boot from a CD, there are even alternatives that will work from just a floppy. This is the one I use, it was very easy to set up and to use, and has never once failed me (running on a P90 with 16 MB of RAM): http://www.bbiagent.net/en/index.html -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 18:54:38 up 92 days, 19:45, 7 users, load average: 0.16, 0.50, 0.43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." -- Hunter S. Thompson
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