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[Sil Greene <Sil_greene AT unc.edu>]

.:Does anyone have any recommendations for firewall products compatible 
.:with Windows XP(Home Edition or other) and is there something better 
.:than Norton anti-virus. 

We use McAfee's VirusScan 7 on XP machines at the office and it doesn't 
seem to interfere too much.  As for firewalls, I hear decent things about 
ZoneAlarm, but haven't tried anything.  All my home machines are behind 
NAT boxen.


.:I would also be curious to know if there are 
.:any hardware firewalls that use dial-up for home use that they could 
.:use.

Yep.  It's called "linux on a 486/Pentium with a modem".  Not too 
difficult to configure; needs an old computer, an ethernet NIC, and a 
modem; no monitor required.  (Ie, cheap, but depending on your ability 
level, possibly a pain in the ***.)  You can get Linux distros designed 
specifically for routing/NAT configurations -- www.smoothwall.org and 
others.  (I have no good recommendations here; everything I've used is 
outdated.  Anyone know if the Linux Router Project's still active?)

Netgear's RM356 is a router for dialup.  Linksys doesn't seem to have a 
similar product, or it's not obvious from their website.  Netgear's 
offering doesn't seem to offer much in the way of firewall options, but a) 
marketing may be clueless or b) it may be hackable enough that you can 
install your own.


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