[geeks] Firewall recommendation?

[Nate]

On Dec 6, 2005, at 3:16 PM, der Mouse wrote:

> Well, what firewalling I do is done by my border router, which is a
> SPARCstation IPX running NetBSD.  I suspect that's not quite what
> you're looking for, though.

Yeah, I do the same sort of thing at home (but with OpenBSD on PA-RISC).

> I don't know the ZyWALL (and the webpage you named doesn't help), but
> every WatchGuard I've seen has been not only a firewall but also a NAT
> box.  (I checked the watchguard webpage too, and it too doesn't say
> whether it does NAT.)  I'd recommend you state whether you want NAT,
> want to avoid NAT, or don't care about NAT, since that is a  
> significant
> factor.

Yes, I'll need NAT.

This product matrix for the ZyWALL products might be helpful (I like  
the features the 35 UTM has):

http://us.zyxel.com/PDF/ZyWALL_Product_Matrix.pdf

- Nate