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"·" <sdglockman@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Mike wrote:
>
> > "Peter CCH" <peter.cch@lycos.com> wrote in message
> > news:51fbdfd3.0406230326.ddb4a8e@posting.google.com...
> >> Can someone here introduce a good firewall to me?
> >>
> >> Please introduce at least one:
> >> - Free firewall
> >
> > Iptables http://www.iptables.org/
> >
> >> - License firewall
> > Watchguard
http://www.watchguard.com
> >
> >
> > Both best of breed and *very* hard to beat
>
> Unless you also take user friendliness into consideration. (There, I
> said it.)
Granted, IPTables is not user friendly if you are non-technical but then
most powerful software is difficult at first.
But then along comes Watchguard to disprove that theory.