I just read a report this week, that detailes a firewall on a single chip!!!
Appears that they will be available quite soon. So hope is in the future...
:-)
Steve.......
> > There is no such thing as a pure "hardware" firewall.
>
> But the NetScreen product line comes awfully close; it's a closed,
> dedicated box, with ASIC-based operation and no accessable OS.
> Configuration is via telnet, or a relatively simple web interface.
>
> This is not a "router with firewall features". It is not a PC
> running an OS and firewall software.
> It does, however, let you restrict outbound as well as inbound
> traffic, and it lets you map static external addresses to internal
> servers.
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