Linksys Firewall/router
Brian Densmore
DensmoreB at ctbsonline.com
Tue Nov 6 18:27:30 CST 2001
It has been my experience, that when an "expert" can't tell you why
something is : excellent, good, bad, worse, etc., they are just BSing.
These kinds of "experts" may have just enough knowledge to be dangerous,
and I categorically ignore these individuals advice.
JMHO,
Brian
P.S. I am using a software firewall on my internet server with great
success. True, I should be using a real firewall, but for my little box
it works fine. The degree of protection you need is proportional to the
cost of recovering from a total loss of your content from an attack. If
you have a business need to be up and secure, you should probably spend
a few bucks (and include recovery costs in your contracts) on a serious
firewall.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Apollo [mailto:apollo7771 at home.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 11:34 AM
> To: KCLUG List
> Subject: Linksys Firewall/router
>
>
> Hello, I was wondering if anyone has had any experience with Linksys
> firewall/routers. I've have Comcast cable internet and have
> been using this
> firewall with great success for some time now. I got in a
> debate with a
> tech about the reliability of these firewalls. He didn't
> believe that these
> firewalls were any good because they didn't block enough
> ports. I've done
> port scans before on these firewalls and nothing is left open
> that isn't
> supposed to be. Yet he insists that they aren't any good and
> has little
> explanation about why. Does anyone have any experience with hardware
> firewalls? Are these Linysys devices any good and if not
> what is a good
> alternative?
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
>
>
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