Re: What is the best firewall software to use without a router

If you take the security of your computer seriously, and you have a few
hundred bucks to spend, the simplest thing to do would be to purchase
an appliance-based home- or small-office firewall. Many of the
manufacturers that support massive networks have SMB product lines.
Check out a few of these: Check Point Sofaware (sofaware.com), Juniper
Networks 5GT & HSC series, Cisco PIX, and Fortinet FortiGate. The
Check Point device is the easiest of them to configure for the
novice...a couple of minutes at most. PIX is probably the hardest, and
the Juniper and Fortinet fall in between...but add more features
(anti-virus, web filtering, etc).
If you have an extra machine and some extra time, you could also build
a nice Linux-based system (IPTables, SmoothWall, etc) for the cost of
your time.
Received on Tue Jan 3 03:40:26 2006