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I was wondering if somebody could clarify the difference between a cheap
retail firewall, like a D-Link you might get at Staples, with professional
grade firewalls from Symantec or Watchguard. If there is no serving going
on behind the firewall, (ie, no virtual server passthrough), is there
really a difference in security? Doesn't this eliminate the need for
SPI? Are $600 firewalls harder to defeat than $40 firewalls? Is it just
the bells and whistles of logging and alerts?
Thanks,
tslugmo
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I was wondering if somebody could clarify the difference between a cheap
retail firewall, like a D-Link you might get at Staples, with professional
grade firewalls from Symantec or Watchguard. If there is no serving going
on behind the firewall, (ie, no virtual server passthrough), is there
really a difference in security? Doesn't this eliminate the need for
SPI? Are $600 firewalls harder to defeat than $40 firewalls? Is it just
the bells and whistles of logging and alerts?
Thanks,
tslugmo
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