On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 21:34:54 -0500, Alex Evonosky wrote > Wolfgang Gill wrote: > > > > Get yourself a Router (A D-Link DI-804HV comes to mind). And let the router do > > all the logging in and configuration for you. > > Thats fine for a simple NAT. For granularity and QoS, packet shaping > for VoIP (vonage, etc), allowing true stateful packet filtering, > port forwarding, etc; IPtables is a better solution. > That's what I use as well. The features that are not required can be turned off. I use the software firewall in Linux (Iptables) and I have one on Windows (Not the windows crap version though) as well. But as for broadband configuration, I find an external router is much easier to configure. And since this one also has a 4 port switch, I can connect to other PC's on the LAN as well. Plus mine logs on for me as well, so, I don't have to write a script to do that for me. Wolf -- Open WebMail Project (http://openwebmail.org)
