Hum you could pick up a cisco pix 506e new or used for fairly cheap
ranging in price from 600 to 1500. I bought mine for my home network for
850 new sealed in the box on ebay. It had a unrestricted lic and vs 6.3 of
the firmware.
Good luck on your search.
You could also use http://www.ipcop.org which nice dedicated solution.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: dallas jordan <dallas.jordan@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 15:28:55 -0500
Subject: Re: Need secure firewall for SOHO
To: "DAmbrosia, Jim" <Jim.DAmbrosia@montgomerycollege.edu>
Jim,
He can run OpenBSD on a fairly low power pc and it will do just
fine. Then he can us a 16 port switch for his clients. That would
be fairly cheap and OpenBSD is an excellent firewall, both performance
and security wise.
On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 08:47:12 -0500, DAmbrosia, Jim
<Jim.DAmbrosia@montgomerycollege.edu> wrote:
To the group,
I have a colleague who has a SOHO network using ADSL. He is using a
standard Linksys router for his firewall, but has reached a limit in the
number of ports it can open and manage. I don't have one on hand to
check, but evidently the Linksys only has ten slots to configure ports
to be opened and he needs 12-15 or so.
Without a lot of money he wants to get a different firewall up and
running that has more ports that it can manage.
I suggested the free version of zone alarm as the only free one I'm
aware of; however it turns out that he wrote his thesis on how you can
crack zone alarm.
Looking for another much more secure solution?
Thanks,
Jim,
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