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By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 07:08:41 +0000

“settling” ?? Not sure what you mean by that. Because to me, IPCop is not settling, nor is it a “lesser” solution. That was my point in that article. Also, you say those are advantages of a real hardware firewall, but you can do those things on a basic Linux box or IPCop too. So again, what’s the *real* benefit?

Actually, I should be clear… I don’t know if IPCop will setup to outbound Internet connections, but on Linux you could do that manually, and therefore, you can probably do that on Ipcop with some effort. But, even still, what would I want to do that? I suppose in a large company maybe there are some valid solutions, but for any of my smaller sized networks, there’s no point in multi connections.

By: Computer Articles

Computer Articles — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 06:32:21 +0000

Since most private companies want to minimize cost, they end und settling for software firewalls. If you have a real hardware firewall, you can have multiple internet connections aside from the usual advantages. Moreover, you can switch from one ip to another for security purposes.

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Is a hardware firewall really a software firewall anyway? — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:56:40 +0000

[...] mt@pugetsoundsoftware.com wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptI love how people always say that a software firewall like IPCop is a “lesser” product than a hardware system. I ran into one site speaking of Netsentron as a hardware solution. I’d also include Endian Firewall and Untangle when… [...]