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[ale] best FIREWALL product for a home LAN ?
- Subject: [ale] best FIREWALL product for a home LAN ?
- From: rstory-l at 2006.revelstone.com (Robert Story)
- Date: Wed Jan 30 21:53:20 2008
- In-reply-to: <034f01c8620e$8de52cd0$6101a8c0@SAMBA>
- References: <034f01c8620e$8de52cd0$6101a8c0@SAMBA>
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:33:21 -0500 Courtney wrote:
CT> Just finished Bruce Schneier's book Secrets and Lies which inspired me to
CT> try to implement a suitable firewall for my home lan which has a variety of
CT> machines, MS, FreeBSD, Linux, Apple, etc..
CT>
CT> Suggestions and opinions appreciated.
I like OpenWRT on a wireless router (mine is the Linksys WRT54GL) + shorewall
for a few reasons. The 2 most important being:
- no need for a full pc on 24x7
- supports vlans on the 4 lan ports, so you can segment your network