Search Again: Re: Firewall hardware/software From: Thomas A. Creedon Date: Friday, March 3, 2000 Time: 11:42:00 pm >I know this is off topic for this list, but I figured this would be a >good place to start. I'm looking to protect a single Mac DNS/Mail >Server and an NT web server. Does anyone know of any [relatively] >inexpensive firewall hardware/software that can protect against common >attacks? I've seen "firewall" software for as low as $39 to firewall >hardware in excess of $10k. I purchased a product, that I won't name, >that did NAT (Network Address Translation) as it's firewall. Which >really doesn't work [when you're running DNS, Mail, and Webservers] as >far as I can tell. I'm willing to spend money on a reasonable product, >but I don't want to spend so little that I get junk or so much that I'm >wasting money. Any suggestions on products or where to go to get >additional information? You might look at DoorStop from OpenDoor. <http://www2.opendoor.com/doorstop/> for the Mac. Perhaps http://www.zonelabs.com/ for the NT? I'm using DoorStop for the Mac and it seems reasonable for what it does. It's not a full feature firewall product with nth degrees of configuration. As far as I can tell ones needs to spend the bigger buks for that kind of protection. I have no idea about the zonelabs product. I just found it during my research on this topic. I did find a hardware solution that looks pretty good for a more robust firewall setup. I plan on moving up in the near future as my needs dictate. <http://www.sonicwall.com/products.html> It's been several weeks since I was looking at this stuff. But I think $1600.00 US was the price I saw for a unit that has a DMZ port. Not bad given the features it has I think. -- Toodle-looooooo........ Thomas weblog: <http://weblog.creedon.net/>, discuss:<http://weblog.creedon.net/discuss/>, email: thomas@creedon.net, fax: 503.231.3831

Messages In This Thread: Firewall hardware/software by Chris Parker on Mar 3, 2000 at 11:12:00 pm Re: Firewall hardware/software by Thomas A. Creedon on Mar 3, 2000 at 11:42:00 pm Re: Firewall hardware/software by David Rice on Mar 4, 2000 at 3:00:00 am Re: Firewall hardware/software by Stonewall Ballard on Mar 4, 2000 at 4:21:00 pm Re: Firewall hardware/software by Steven Henderson on Mar 6, 2000 at 6:11:00 pm Re: Firewall hardware/software by David Ross on Mar 7, 2000 at 5:30:00 am Re: Firewall hardware/software by Steven Henderson on Mar 16, 2000 at 5:57:00 pm Re: Firewall hardware/software by David Ross on Mar 16, 2000 at 6:11:00 pm