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Buy.com has the Addlogix Lan-Guard All-In-One Internet Security Gateway - LG-2000 for $118 + $7 shipping = $126 shipped. Provides inexpensive, comprehensive and multifunction UTM protection against all worms, viruses, spyware, malicious attacks, and other security threats.
Have 2 of these. They work well, are transparent to the network, very configurable. BUT, if you use anything other than the standard 192.168 subnet for your downstream addressing, be prepared for hassles with the setup. I finally gave up trying to use 172.16, and changed to the 192 sub-net that the unit seems happy with. Tech support is only by trouble ticket and they don't seem too ept, asking dumb questions that are already answered.
#1 good info. Does this require any kind of subscription? Seems like it would need periodic updates to keep the virus protection up to date.
Also, is there any noticeable performance loss?
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Thanks for the info. How well does it handle large number of connections? Will it choke?
Comes with 3 yrs of subscription for the UTM features. $30 annually after that for the renewal.
or you could build yourself an ipcop.org firewall, and add on the copfilter.org package. and if you've got mutliple machines downstream, you can add update accelerator: makes ipcop function like wsus. save bandwidth and speed up patches.
it's free, not restricted to 192.168, and runs well on a 386. more, of course, is better.
www.astaro.com offers a similar unified security appliance/software package free for home networks. That is, the software and update subscription is free forever for home use, and it runs on most any old PC. They just bumped my LAN node limit from the 10 they provided as the standard free package up to 50 nodes; I do not know if that is across the board or for longevity.
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good copy. thanks! i wasn't aware of their products.