[Dredd]

My company has remote sites that are now needing a hardware firewall to prevent access to users. It needs to be simple an inexpensive. All we basically need is a one port firewall that does NAT. Any suggestions?

[adamvjackson]

Depending on your needs, you have a few inexpensive options. You could set up a spare PC with either ISA Server, or a Linux distro, or you could get a soho router/firewall.

[Dredd]

Needs to be a router-type firewall for a cable connection.

[adamvjackson]

I've had reasonably good success with a Linksys BEFSR41, and they retail in the US for approx. $60, so fairly inexpensive.

[StewartG]

I use Smoothwall to do this task at work and at home, runs on an old Pentium 200 in my case. Is meant to run on a 486 too.
http://www.smoothwall.org

[mezron]

I've used Sonicwall products with pretty good luck. They're quite a bit more expensive than the Linksys stuff, but also a lot higher quality. I've replaced about a half dozen Linksys routers in the last couple years because the dhcp server flaked out. Some of the sonicwall stuff will do antivirus as well as stateful packet inspection and vpn. Pretty cool stuff.

http://www.sonicwall.com/

Jim

[HELLBRINGER]

yeah, then cache, and content filtering... cool stuff if you know how to do it