12-05-2003, 03:33 PM
Who said you have to buy one....just get an old shitbox pc with a 2 gig hardrive and 128 MB of memory. Install Mandrake Multi/Single Network Firewall on it. All you need it 2 network interfaces and BAAM! You have a hardened, packet filtering firewall. The software if totally free and installs in about 12 minutes. You access it from an internal IP address on your lan like https://192.168.1.1:8443 and you can configure it using your browser to set up rules and see the access logs. It also has network monitoring and Prelude Intrusion Detection System. So for the price of your time...you can make an old PC into a great firewall/router for your network.