Re: recommend hardware firewall

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On 04/04/2010 07:41 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Sunday 04 April 2010, Michael Miles wrote:
>    
>> On 04/04/2010 12:32 PM, Dave Ihnat wrote:
>>      
>>> On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 03:26:52PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>>>        
>>>> I see no benefit to a hardware router vs. running Linux with the
>>>> firewall configured.
>>>>          
>>> Well, yes, there is.  Two different platforms, different firewalls, mean
>>> that no single attack vector can be used on both of them.
>>>
>>> I wouldn't recommend the BEFSR41 line, though.  Get a WRT54G/WRT54GL and
>>> load either Tomato or DD-WRT.  Much more capable than the native
>>> firmware, and free to boot.  (Or to run...joke...)
>>>
>>>        
>>>> There are good, free, firewall packages you can run on a cheap machine.
>>>>          
>>> That's effectively what you're doing with the free firmware on
>>> commercial firewalls, without the need to maintain another full OS and
>>> usually in a very much smaller physical package.
>>>
>>> $0.02, YMMV, etc.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> --
>>> 	Dave Ihnat
>>> 	dihnat@xxxxxxxxxx
>>>        
>> I have found that yes it is quite old
>>
>> I am about to flash the firmware to the latest befsr-v1.46.02_FW_code
>>
>> its a bin file and from what I understand under linux I am to use tftp
>> to do this
>>
>> tftp 192.168.1.1
>> mode binary
>> put CODE.BIN
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> I am just trying to figure it out before I go ahead
>>
>> Michael
>>
>>      
> Please check the serial number and version of your befsr-41 on their web
> site before doing that, I understand that stuffing too new a FW into an
> older one will brick it.  I know of at least 3 versions of it.
>
>    
So I should step it up by flashing all sequential updates?


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