Consumer firewall recommendation wanted.

Archaea

Archaea

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Can anyone recommend me to a consumer (expense) level firewall device that has these criteria:

  • Password protected
  • Proxy out to the webfiltering and blocklisting service of my choice.
  • Can be remotely administered - preferably one that will seek a parent address, of my choice, for updates.
 
consumer level to do any of that?

DD-wrt \ Linux in general.

or one of the small 400 dollar cisco firewalls.
 
Yeah take a peek and Endian and Untangle. Free linux Unified Threat Management firewall distros that you install on your own hardware.
 
That Untangle Re-Router for Windows is actually pretty nice! I've been evaluating it for a few weeks now and it's done a pretty good job on a small network for 11 computers and 1 server so far.
 
For this purpose a consumer level hardware device is still desirable. For example - a modified linksys wrt54g or wrt54gl router firmware might fit the bill --- if that kind of option was available. Anyone have any contacts that might be able to reprogram a consumer device's firmware to meet these requirements under a paid contract?
 
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Archaea said:
For this purpose a consumer level hardware device is still desirable. For example - a modified linksys wrt54g or wrt54gl router firmware might fit the bill --- if that kind of option was available. Anyone have any contacts that might be able to reprogram a consumer device's firmware to meet these requirements under a paid contract?
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If you are willing to pay a developer to write a new firmware for a consumer device, would it not be cheaper to just buy a bunch of Cisco PIX501's? unless you're really wanting to deploy hacked WRT54-GL's en masse.
 
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