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Title: Firewalls
Post by: Privateer on October 04, 2007, 14:06:57 PM

Upto now Ive been very happy with ZAP, but hourly I get these errors.

(http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.hamilton6000/used/error.jpg)

time for a change, whats the best.

thanks.

Title: Re:Firewalls
Post by: neXus on October 04, 2007, 14:22:48 PM

Built into router firewall ftw :)

Title: Firewalls
Post by: Jaitsu on October 04, 2007, 14:34:09 PM

^^ yea

software firewalls just eat your resources if youre not careful... if you have a router make sure the firewall is enabled, if it is then no need for any software

Title: Firewalls
Post by: neXus on October 04, 2007, 15:11:36 PM

Quote from: Jaitsu^^ yea

software firewalls just eat your resources if youre not careful... if you have a router make sure the firewall is enabled, if it is then no need for any software

I find them dam easier to control and set up as well

Title: Firewalls
Post by: Mardoni on October 04, 2007, 15:29:46 PM

hardware fws are great but a lot of NAT firewalls dont allow you to control whats getting out, only whats trying to get back in.

I still use ZoneAlarm on my laptop as I occasionally use that on Public Wifi networks. Otherwise Ive been more than happy with the firewall/ip filtering on Netgear, Draytek and Cisco routers :)

Title: Firewalls
Post by: M3ta7h3ad on October 04, 2007, 20:46:07 PM

Sunbelt personal firewall. Used to be known as Keiro Personal Firewall, and Ive used it since around 2001. :)

Title: Re:Firewalls
Post by: Mark on October 04, 2007, 22:17:55 PM

checkpoint FW-1 NGX R65 on SPLAT. Thats the best (He did ask :))

I can get you an eval license, being a reseller and all.

Title: Re:Firewalls
Post by: Beaker on October 04, 2007, 23:30:09 PM

Just dump the crappy software firewall, and pick up a Checkpoint as Mark suggests, or you can get an older SOHO6 on ebay for under£30 these days.

Title: Firewalls
Post by: bear on October 05, 2007, 00:02:26 AM

I would get ipcop (http://ipcop.org/) an old PII -PIII
2 fast nics on wifi card a smaller harddrive cd rom reader.
I you will have a great firewall\ router\ acess point\DHCP
intrusion detection by SNORT etc.
Other add ons (http://ipcop.org/index.php?module=pnWikka&tag=IPCopAddons)

Title: Re:Firewalls
Post by: Mark on October 06, 2007, 00:02:58 AM

m0n0wall is better than ipcop or smoothwall, and its not built on linux, its built on FreeBSD, which in itself is an advantage for a security device.

Title: Re:Firewalls
Post by: Serious on October 06, 2007, 20:26:47 PM

Quote from: neXusBuilt into router firewall ftw :)

Unless you are not using wi-fi, then its best to have a software job like ZoneAlarm on *every* PC. TBH I would have these anyway just to keep viruses in check.

Title: Re:Firewalls
Post by: DeltaZero on November 03, 2007, 22:06:12 PM

Quote from: Markm0n0wall is better than ipcop or smoothwall, and its not built on linux, its built on FreeBSD, which in itself is an advantage for a security device.

Agreed. Have a look at pfsense - its based on m0n0wall but with a few significant enchancements.

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