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Originally posted by Dragonlich
If you need an extra hardware firewall, try and dig out an olde computer (386-ish, 12 megs, two network cards, floppy drive), and try Coyote linux, a firewall-on-a-floppy.
just sayin'
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Im not sure that classifies as a true hardware firewall--the firewall is still running from software which can be overwritten/changed. Part of the advantage of true imbedded OS hardware firewalls is that they cant be overwritten without flashing it, meaning its next to impossible to get through. Not to mention that when it fails, like Yotta said, it fails closed.