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I wish someone would design a firewall that is just an RJ-45 jack with a few dip switches to open/close commonly needed ports, the rest closed by default.
by grandalf 16y ago
I wish someone would design a firewall that is just an RJ-45 jack with a few dip switches to open/close commonly needed ports, the rest closed by default.
- stewartbutler 16y agoI'd think that the bandwidth on an embedded device like this is too low for enterprise use -- it would be a network bottleneck. You'd have to have a much higher clock rate than most small devices can achieve to get full 10/100/1000 bandwidth, so the market would be pretty small.
- bigiain 16y agoI wonder - for between a typical sub 10Mbit ADSL connection and the rest of a home/small business network? I suspect there's a _lot_ of sub 10 Mbit (never mind 100 or 1000Mbit) internet connections where an "inline firewall" ethernet doohicky wouldn't need too much cpu horsepower...
- pixdamix 16y agoThere's was a company who tried this kind of thing: Selling a wireless card which embedded a linux powered firewall: http://www.yoggie.com/New_Yoggie/Welcome.html http://www.yoggie.com/New_Yoggie/Welcome.html http://www.yoggie-gatekeeper.co.uk/ http://www.yoggie-gatekeeper.co.uk/ I don't know but it seems they failed a funding round.
- zdw 16y agoThe "Killer Nic" is semi-sucessful in the gaming arena: http://www.bigfootnetworks.com/killer-nic-m1/ http://www.bigfootnetworks.com/killer-nic-m1/ It basically is linux on a NIC card that does packet reordering for lower latency, with varying degrees of success depending the situation. They're also moving into wireless: http://www.bigfootnetworks.com/bigfoot-networks-killer-wireless-n-adaptors-deliver-breakthrough-wi-fi-performance-for-notebooks/ http://www.bigfootnetworks.com/bigfoot-networks-killer-wirel...