Re: linksys firewalls?

From: W.D.McKinney <deem@wdm.com>
Date: Thu Jun 17 2004 - 09:57:36 AKDT

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Lee [mailto:lee@fabco.com]
>Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 03:37 PM
>To: aklug@aklug.org
>Subject: linksys firewalls?
>
>Hey folks,
>
>Altho I normally put in smoothwall or ipcop boxen for firewalls, are
>there good technical reasons not to use those linksys appliances? More
>exploits? easier to exploit? updates?
>
>

There have in the past had built in NTP clients that flood networks when =
they cannot reach the default server. All this is hard coded in these che=
ap devices as most are made in Taiwan & China. I prefer a little more in =
techno capabilities and of course that means $$.

My 2cents.

Dee

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