Re: recommend hardware firewall

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On 04/04/2010 12:32 PM, Dave Ihnat wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 03:26:52PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>    
>> I see no benefit to a hardware router vs. running Linux with the firewall
>> configured.
>>      
> Well, yes, there is.  Two different platforms, different firewalls, mean
> that no single attack vector can be used on both of them.
>
> I wouldn't recommend the BEFSR41 line, though.  Get a WRT54G/WRT54GL and
> load either Tomato or DD-WRT.  Much more capable than the native
> firmware, and free to boot.  (Or to run...joke...)
>
>    
>> There are good, free, firewall packages you can run on a cheap machine.
>>      
> That's effectively what you're doing with the free firmware on
> commercial firewalls, without the need to maintain another full OS and
> usually in a very much smaller physical package.
>
> $0.02, YMMV, etc.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> 	Dave Ihnat
> 	dihnat@xxxxxxxxxx
>    


I have found that yes it is quite old

I am about to flash the firmware to the latest befsr-v1.46.02_FW_code

its a bin file and from what I understand under linux I am to use tftp 
to do this

tftp 192.168.1.1
mode binary
put CODE.BIN




I am just trying to figure it out before I go ahead

Michael







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