Re: The Dreaded Personal Firewall

In article <1138545332.557931.171910@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
General Specific <brad_pitstain@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>ohaya wrote:
>> > So, it appears that the true role of a personal firewall would be to
>> > control outgoing connections.
>>
>>
>> Hi Brad,
>>
>> The above is not totally the case. A NAT or any other kind of
>> router/network firewall would protect your "inside" network at the
>> "perimeter" of your inside network from traffic from the "outside"
>> network, but that router or network firewall would not do anything to
>> protect any machines on the inside network from any other machines on
>> the inside network. If a threat ever got onto one of the machines on
>> your inside network, it (the threat) would be free to attack any other
>> machines on your inside network (remember Blaster?).
>>
>> That's one of the other main reasons for putting a firewall like Kereo
>> or Sygate, or whatever, on the individual machines that are on your
>> inside network, i.e., the per-machine firewall would prevent attack from
>> other machines on your inside network.
>>
>
>Someone recommended a Sonicwall for our network. Looks good except
>that it only has a 5 port switch. I can set it up between our switch
>and the internet, but I would prefer that it have 24 ports. That would
>machines on the inside network from each other, wouldn't it?
>

Get yourself a seperate switch, like this one;

http://www.netgear.com/products/details/FS524.php

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