Re: Most Popular Hardware Firewalls?

TechGrrl wrote:
> First of all, yes. NAT firewall in my world aren't really firewalls.
> The protection they provide is too limited and pratcically non-existant
> when it comes to outgoing traffic.

Why exactly should one try to filter outgoing traffic when such a thing
like tunneling exists?

> What about secure remote access to your network?

That would need a gateway anyway.

> And intrustion prevention?

Is usually impractical.

> Bandwidth shaping?

That's a non-firewall feature.

> Web filtering for the kids?

You mean "against the kids".

> Home users who understand a thing or two about network security and
> have more than one machine in the home network often opt for a statful
> inspection firewall in an appliance rather than purchase a simple
> router then heaps of locally installed software to meet the rest of the
> vendor needs.

Home users usually don't need a firewall at all.
Received on Mon May 1 00:53:10 2006