Re: 56k dial up on laptop 802.11G ?

Duane Arnold <notme@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>floyd@xxxxxxxxxx (Floyd L. Davidson) wrote in
>news:874qajfbw2.fld@xxxxxxxxxx:
>>
>> You are absolutely right. The OP could probably find one that
>> someone is throwing in the trash that would be far more than is
>> needed for a firewall. And despite what David thinks, booting
>> up a Linux firewall is pretty darned easy (e.g., every Linksys
>> WRT54G does it in about 7 seconds).
>>
>> Total cost: $0.
>>
>
>No Linksys router has a FW. The NAT router has SPI maybe and some other FW
>like features. And it can be used as part of a total FW solution as a
>border device. But it's not an appliance that is running FW software, even
>if it is running SPI.

The Linksys WRT54G series of wireless routers all have firewall
software.

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Floyd L. Davidson <http://web.newsguy.com/floyd_davidson>
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) floyd@xxxxxxxxxx
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