Re: Inexpensive firewall for small business?

[Paul Wilkins <paulw@monsterboard.com.au>]

On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Nathan Lodoen wrote:

> Dean Ethier wrote:
> > 
> > Is there a product available for a reasonable cost for a small business (less
> > than 50 hosts) to protect themselves when connecting to the internet?  I deal
> > with a number of small organisations who would like to take advantage of
> > email, th Web, etc, but can't justify 5-10 thousand for a firewall
> Not sure if it's in your price range or not but the Cisco PIX might be
> worth a look.  Anyone know offhand what the cost is for a basic, two
> port PIX box these days?

Linux box with firewalling and IP masquerade, or the FWTK toolkit from TIS 
(www.tis.com), or socks5 (www.nec.com).

All the software is "free".

There's even an article on setting it up in Linux Journal Dec 1997

Later

Paul

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