Hardware vs software firewall

NCBill · 2004-12-22T23:10:54+00:00

In an earlier thread, it was said that a hardware firewall is superior to a software firewall. In fact a recommendation was made to buy a router with built in firewall.As a clueless newbie to firewall alternatives, I would naively think that a software firewall, with regular updates would be better than a hardware firewall, which would seem to be unable to adapt. Obviously, I am missing something here.Could someone help me understand why a hardware firewall is superior to a software one?

Dec 22, 2004 40 Replies

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Greg Hennessy 21 years ago

Just in case someone else believed your blather.

I suggest you check ones posting record before casting aspersions of trolling about the place.

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