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Build a Cisco PIX for 800 Australian Dollars

Posted by timothy on from the but-what-about-real-money dept.

tallguy_wt writes: "Why fork out thousands of dollars to learn Cisco's PIX firewalling product when you can build your own for under 800 Australian Dollars, as shown in this article by Routermonkey."

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  1. Theft. by nyet · · Score: 2, Redundant

    \Theft\, n. [OE. thefte, AS. [thorn]i['e]f[eth]e, [thorn][=y]f[eth]e, [thorn]e['o]f[eth]e. See Thief.]

    1. (Law) The act of stealing; specifically, the felonious taking and removing of personal property, with an intent to deprive the rightful owner of the same; larceny.

    Note: To constitute theft there must be a taking without the owner's consent, and it must be unlawful or felonious; every part of the property stolen must be removed, however slightly, from its former position ; and it must be, at least momentarily, in the complete possession of the thief. See Larceny, and the Note under Robbery.

    -Dictionary.com

  2. Re:How stupid can you get? by Dogcow · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "What jackass would want to waste time and money recreating a POS firewall like a PIX? When's the article coming showing me how to clone a watchguard?"

    Yeah, speaking of jackasses, look at all the slashflunkies getting al dente over the idea that this article should have been about writing an IPTABLES firewall. Funny how if their enthusiasm was converted to textual works (million monkey scenarios, anyone?), it might describe exactly that - the cloning of a watchguard.

  3. Re:Why not use Smoothwall v2.0 by Dogcow · · Score: 0, Redundant

    You said the article should have been about a low-cost, open source alternative blah blah blah.

    I'm waiting for your article.

    Please, mod me down. This discussion isn't worth having until you post it.