dude that used to be true years ago but these
days people are just inserting cheap firewalls
at home. I've set custom 486/586 home wireless
routers for 2 friends
but no longer do it. my reasons are:
1 - (near) zero maintenance--no os to install,
patch, etc.
2 - electrical consumption---
a 486/586 machine consumes what, maybe 30 watts
continuous (on a low end machine) and will cost maybe
$2 or or more to run a
month...hardware home routers just uses
dc adaptors and should cost cents to run.
This alone is reason enough to just get a inexpensive
firewall.
jondz
On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 19:03, John Paul wrote:
> Why choose a hardware firewall when software can do that for you. Opensource
> from linux is the best firewall i still have. You can actually convert a 486
> machine into a firewall/router hardware with strong/secured firewall rules -
> of course with special features not mentioned in the hardware firewall. This
> is if you're cutting cost ;-)
>
> drop me some email dude.
>
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>
> > > I have this impression that SMC products are not
> > > anyway better than the say, Linksys or D-link
> > > Maybe this?
> > > >http://www.linksys.com/products/product.asp?grid=34&scid=29&prid=433
> >
> > I don't know. Have not used Linksys, though from
> > cursory look it does offer more features. The only
> > reason why I chose SMC over others is that the
> > price is almost half compared to linksys.
> >
> > regards,
> > Andre Varon
> > http://andre.lasaltech.com
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