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by Jacky Howe · 12 years ago In reply to Firewall Appliance

are a lot of free ones and some that are inexpensive out there. PC Tools has a free one. I recently went through this exercise. I used Google.

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Get any old PC, two NICs & whatever Linux you like best.

by Absolutely · 12 years ago In reply to Firewall Appliance

I'm getting to like Debian over Mandrake. I've greatly enjoyed iptables, and enthusiastically recommend the book Linux Firewalls, Second Edition by Ziegler, publisher = New Riders.

In addition to providing example firewalls for many common scenarios, he explained TCP/IP and firewall principles thoroughly, and succinctly enough that this novice now sprouts off like I know what I'm talking about!

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Thanks for the tip

by FredJ · 12 years ago In reply to Get any old PC, two NICs ...

In hindsight, I searched Techrepublic forums and came out with Smoothwall as a test option for me and thanks for the book recommendation, will try that too.

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Can you price it?

by Kron · 12 years ago In reply to Firewall Appliance

What would or how much would you consider "inexpensive" ?

This would help to narrow down the field a bit.

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Learning perspective

by FredJ · 12 years ago In reply to Can you price it?

From the perspective of learning - about $100-200 and just to clarify I am not looking for a personal firewall.

Thanks...

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by nio75 · 12 years ago In reply to Firewall Appliance

Why are you not look at IPcop. this is a very good & free firewall software.

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