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Please reccomend a firewall

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by wenbin_li

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Hi. My company requires a firewall to isolate a network from the main network. The 2 networks are then connected to the firewall which is connected to a router for internet access. Hence i would like to know of any free or cheap hardware/software base firewall that can allow me to filter incoming/outgoing traffic as well as do logging.

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by mjd420nova

Zonelabs has a free Zonealarm firewall that is really a good firewall and will even teach you something about how your OS operates online. Initially it will identify every program that tries to access the internet and everything that then talks back to that unit. You must then grant or block each one from communicating. This makes the initial setup tedious but you learn a lot about how and why each program communicates with various sites.

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