Infiltrator Posted May 15, 2010 Share Posted May 15, 2010 Hi all, I am just looking for ways to effectively secure my home network. So I was wondering what would be a good hardware based firewall. I know very good software based firewalls, like comodo, pfsense, SmoothWall but I want something hardware based. I don't know much about hardware based firewalls, so I hope anyone could suggest any good one. Thank you in advance Regards, Infiltrator Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deleted Posted May 15, 2010 Share Posted May 15, 2010 I don't think you will find much in the way of Hardware based Firewalls for Home usage beyond the basic ones in routers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infiltrator Posted May 15, 2010 Author Share Posted May 15, 2010 I don't think you will find much in the way of Hardware based Firewalls for Home usage beyond the basic ones in routers. What about at an enterprise level? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IOSys Posted May 15, 2010 Share Posted May 15, 2010 (edited) I can't say if it's "the best" but it certainly is small ... http://www.yoggie.com/Gatekeeper-SOHO They also make a very reasonably priced OPEN SOURCE !! version, unfortunately it's sold out at the moment : http://www.yoggie.com/Open-Firewall-Debug-Board Moving a bit up in price there's Soekris net 5501 http://www.soekris.com/net5501.htm It can run most linux router-distros and there's also a special version of Zeroshell, http://www.zeroshell.net/eng/ , for it . If you have an old computer collecting dust it can probably run zeroshell (or smoothwall or any other linux router-distro)if you add a second NIC : Hardware needed to run ZeroShell Zeroshell works on x86 and x86_64 box with at least a Pentium 233MHz, 96MB RAM, an ATA CDROM reader or an ATA Compact Flash (CF) adapter if you prefer to boot from this type of medium (for example on embedded devices). Every VGA graphic card and RS232 serial port are supported. The database in which data and configuration are saved can be stored on IDE, SATA, SCSI and USB storage devices. All the PCI, USB and PCMCIA network cards supported by the Linux kernel are supported by ZeroShell too and should work correctly. For a few Network adapters, Linux has not support for VLAN 802.1q. In this case ethernet packets greater than 1496 bytes are not forwarded on the VLANs. Or you could build a very nice dedicated box with a Atom-board with 2 NIC's .. Edited May 15, 2010 by IOSys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infiltrator Posted May 15, 2010 Author Share Posted May 15, 2010 (edited) I can't say if it's "the best" but it certainly is small ... http://www.yoggie.com/Gatekeeper-SOHO They also make a very reasonably priced OPEN SOURCE !! version, unfortunately it's sold out at the moment : http://www.yoggie.com/Open-Firewall-Debug-Board Moving a bit up in price there's Soekris net 5501 http://www.soekris.com/net5501.htm It can run most linux router-distros and there's also a special version of Zeroshell, http://www.zeroshell.net/eng/ , for it . If you have an old computer collecting dust it can probably run zeroshell (or smoothwall or any other linux router-distro)if you add a second NIC : Or you could build a very nice dedicated box with a Atom-board with 2 NIC's .. Yeah, I've thought about that too setting up a box with smoothwall or pfsense or something alike and have it operating as firewall along with snort for intrusion detection. Edited May 15, 2010 by Infiltrator Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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