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@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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