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Should I go for a hardware or software firewall? The simple answer to this complex question is if you have more than 3 to 4 users, best to go for a hardware firewall.We are happy to provide you with questions to ask yourself before buying the firewall. Still worried about where to start to look for firewall hardware? To choose the right size and capacity would require skills of insights and foresight to make sure you are choosing one fit for all purposes to secure short to medium term solution for the business. VMWare is cool for quickly learning a distro though, I've used it at home to piddle with other distros just to dork around with them, for a while I was running my home lan behind ClearOS, which is another very cool 's like an open sourced version of Small Business Server Premium.file sharing, mail server, remote access, proxy server, web server, database, etc etc.Firewall occupies a special place for any small to medium size businesses. It's like.another hop, if you know what I mean. I'd rather have Untangle (or any router distro) talking DIRECTLY to the NICs.instead of talking to another operating system when then talks directly to the NICs.
And being a layer 7 appliance.I don't like the fact that it's doubled up on the NICs in VMWare.
I know you can isolate the red NIC in VMWare.I 's gotta be a physically separate box for me.Īlso, Untangle, and other UTM distros, need full access to the CPU for optimal performance. The have already been exploits against VMWare, there will be lots more as it grows in popularity. I'm not a fan of firewalls in a VM.there's something inside of me demanding that the firewall is a totally separate physical box from the rest of your LAN.