[TriLUG] Linux Firewalls for Home LANs... How Come?

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 22:32, David A. Cafaro wrote:
> The biggest advantage the 
> Linux box has is you can do state-full packet inspection and other highend 
> firewall tricks that the NAT boxes just can't (yet).  

Actually, the ones that can have been out for about 6-8 months.
I believe the Netgear FA??? ones include stateful inspection
and I'd be surprised if Linksys doesn't have one too.

Tanner
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