[oclug][OT] Hardware firewalls

[Chris H]

On January 22, 2003 02:32 pm, Shad Young wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I have matter I want your opinions on.
>
> What do you all think about those hardware firewall/routers that run in
> the sub 300 dollar category? Do they work? Are they actually secure and
> do the give you fine control over policies? Are they good enough to
> deploy in a professional Linux environment?

To answer your qeustions in the order they are presented.

-to a degree
-not that secure as they are not fine grained enough generally speaking
-nope

/ch