Good hardware firewall?

guillaume

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I'm tired of using ZoneAlarm as my firewall, although I appreciate the fact that it will ask to grant or deny permission for any process to access the internet.
What are the good hardware firewalls today? I have an older cable modem that coudl be replaced too if the best product is an integrated modem+firewall. I don't mind going wireless as well.

 

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If you have an old pc lying around, you could always use smoothwall and configure your own firewall. Much cheeper than buying one.


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guillaume

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Hmmm I could but I'm cutting down on noise too

 

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So now you're looking for a SILENT, good, firewall...


hmm..

 

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if you want something decent, you can pick up used 1u hardware firewalls on ebay for pretty cheap. The only problem is you usually have to have a subscription agreement with the maker to get the software to configure it. If you can get that software included, just about anything will work well for minimal traffic.

 

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you could always pick up a soekris box and run m0n0wall on it. Will be completely silent and use little power.

http://www.soekris.com/

or for a slightly cheaper alternative to the soekris boards are the WRAP boards:


http://www.mini-box.com/s.nl/sc.8/category.19/it.A/id.286/.f

 

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what about the firewalls integrated into wireless or wired routers? Are these any good? (yeah i'm on a budget )

 

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Linksys routers seem to be the most popular brand here and seem to perform very well and you would prolly do well with one. These will range from ~$40+ Wired being cheaper.

 

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you could get a linksys BEFSR41, BEFW11, or WRT54G and install linux on them for a highly configurible, affordable, and silent linux router.

If you are into projects and challenges this might be something to look into.

Here are two of the many links I have found:

http://www.linux.com/howtos/Linksys-Blue-Box-Router-HOWTO/index.shtml

http://www.g4tv.com/screensavers/features/354/Dark_Tip_Linux_on_Linksys.html

 

Randyman...

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I agree with Fuzzy Bunny. I have 2 Linksys routers with the firewall, and they seem to do the trick with ease. The WRT54G has TONS and TONS of firmwares avalible to allow all kind of crazy stuff. I just run the stock firmware in both routers, along with Windows SP2 Firewall, Kaspersky AV, Spybot S&D, and Spyware Blaster - and I have yet to be attacked with this setup. I really think my main improvement was ditching Norton AV in favor of Kaspersky Personal 5.0 (norton let in quite a few attacks - especially Java stuff), but a hardware firewall is positively a great idea IMO...

 

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thanks guys!