comp.security.firewalls archive
Re: Best Firewall
From: Shadus <shadus@shadus.org>
Date: Thu Sep 01 2005 - 18:09:45 CEST
Date: Thu Sep 01 2005 - 18:09:45 CEST
On 2005-09-01, Volker Birk <bumens@dingens.org> blabbed:
> hplayer03 <rosnermd@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Just wondering what was the best Free or Purchased Firewall?? ie.
>> ZoneAlarm, Norton, Sygate...
> Those are not firewalls. They're "Personal Firewalls", products
> one doesn't need.
To expand on that (and I agree for the most part) you may wish to look
into a Cisco PIX, SonicWALL, etc... an alternate solution is a dedicated
machine running linux/*nix of some variety setup strictly as a
firewall... although I'm personally a fan of dedicated specialized
equipment when it comes to networking equipment.
-- ShadusReceived on Thu Sep 29 20:05:53 2005