Recommend me a "Cheap" Hardware firewall

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Recommend me a "Cheap Hardware firewall

Hi guys

I am wanting to install a firewall of some sort in our home network

Im on Virgin and use a Netgear 624GT cable router with firewall built in

Right, ive got my self a desktop pc (P4) runs quite silently, it has 160gb hard drive in it,

what can i do with it?

Would want it firewall and file server based, so i can control what websites the kids can go. And also serve files from it in the future.

we have 4 PCs in the house and various wireless devices

ive been reading IPCop is the way forward? but i wont be able to use it as a file server.

any ideas?

thanks!
 
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If your unsure how to configure these sort of kits your going to run into trouble along the line. Your probably best off just monitoring them bye your eyes because of the sorts of configurations you will run into are hard.

You may want to give http://www.smoothwall.org alook into.

Andr3w1984
 
Smoothwall is reasonably good for free, personally I'll stick with my real hardware firewall (Juniper SSG20) but if you have a PC lying around it'll do.

Having a firewall and a file server combined is bad practice, you want to keep your security device and your data seperate. To be honest, if you have NAT enabled then any old firewall built into a router will do you fine. You could get one of the dedicated NAS distributions for your PC and use it as a file server that way or just install a linux distribution of choice and configure it to do exactly what you want...
 
cheers guys

ive had a tinker with ClarkConnect last night, looked pretty decent and pretty straight forward to use for a linux noob like me.

i see what your sayin bigred, combing firewall and File server its a good idea on the hindsight

il have a look into smoothwall
 
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