Originally Posted by firebane
With a GOOD router and it setup properly it will do exactly the same thing as windows firewall or even a commercial like Norton. I have a Linksys WRT54G and it has more bells and whistles and I have it setup very well and trust it more than I do the Windows firewall or any commercial one.
Get around it? I'd like to see that. You could ping flood me as you could with any other router, and the ports that I have open will do you absolutely no good
I have the same router. The router firewall only protects from the public WAN side. Circumventing the WAN side of a wireless router is remarkably easy. Both WEP and WPA protection can be cracked in under 10 minutes if someone knows what they're doing and if an attacker is on your LAN, what good does the hardware firewall on the router do? Absolutely nothing. As i said before, anyone who is
familiar with IT security will tell you that a multi-tier approach is best.