Re: Most Popular Hardware Firewalls?

snertking wrote:

>> Why exactly should one try to filter outgoing traffic when such a thing
>> like tunneling exists?
>
> You can filter tunneling on a good firewall. A good firewall with deep
> packet inspection will recognize and stop HTTP tunneling, sock
> tunneling, etc.

You forgot the word "some" at certain places. And to state to
performance penalty.

>>> And intrustion prevention?
>>
>> Is usually impractical.
>
> The IPS package I have on my firewall works quite well. Why do you say
> it is impractical?

What exactly does it? Simple pattern macthing or comprehensive anomaly
analysis? And what exactly does it actually help increasing security?
Does it offer a speed of 100 Mbps?

>> Home users usually don't need a firewall at all.
>
> Hence the extremely large number of zomied PC's on the internet spewing
> crap. 99.9999 percent of which belong to home users.

And this hasn't decreased even over the comprehensal promotion of
so-called "firewalls". Actually it seems to just got worse.

> Ya, right. Home users don't need firewalls. Like they don't need oxygen.

Then I wonder why I'm getting along without one.
Received on Mon May 1 00:53:41 2006