On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Shaun Prince spewed into the ether:
> Could anyone explain to why most people prefer to use software firewalls as
> opposed to using a hardware firewalls?
At some point, your firewall is software. If it was purely hardware,
you would not be able to configure it in anyway other than the default
settings. The benefits of a hardware (or rather firmware) based
firewall is that most work is done very close to the hardware, as
opposed to the usual software firewall which runs on an OS, or in an OS
kernel.
The biggest advantage of a software firewall is that it is cheaper, and
easier to upgrade and maintain than a hardware firewall.
My recommendation would be to go with what you can secure properly and
fits in your budget.
Devdas Bhagat
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Power corrupts. And atomic power corrupts atomically.
