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Should You Fire Your Firewall?

Posted by simoniker on from the services-no-longer-required dept.

Gsurface writes "A lengthy article over at Flexbeta.net focuses on firewall applications and how well they perform as far as securing your system. Four typical firewall applications were tested including two routers, one being the Cisco 831 SOHO, which performed rather well. In total, nine security test were conducted to measure how well each firewall performed."

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  1. Crap by Old+Uncle+Bill · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Any review of security/firewalls using Gibson's crappy analysis tools is beyond flawed. I would take all of this review with a grain or two of salt.

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  2. Re:I don't appreciate the hardware very much... by nocomment · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Same here. Most of my company firewalls are running OpenBSD with PF. There's 1 linux box that is getting replaced very soon. Typical setup is 4 or 5 nics, multiple NAT's yadda yadda. plus now that OpenBSD is giong to have CARP in 3.5, you will have an auto-failover with a maintained state to another machine. This plus transparent squid caching, allows us to have about 100 users per T-1 with no complaints.

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  3. YRO? by winsk · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Does this really belong in the Your Rights Online section?