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Internet Cafe - which firewall?

by alabedekenny May 19, 2009 6:47PM PDT

hello,

Im planning to set up a cyber cafe, but dont want to use cisco pix firewall because its expensive for me.

I was advised to use LINUX.

But the problem actually is this - is LINUX firewall a software or hardware?

If it is a software, on which hardware will I install it? then, can LINUX be used in the same environment with Windows server 2003? because im planning to install Windows server 2003 on the server?

Please help me out, i want a very good security system installed at reasonable cost.

thanks a lot.

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Re: Linux

by Kees Bakker May 20, 2009 6:20AM PDT

Linux is an operating system, not a firewall or an antivirus or an anti-spyware program. Just an OS, like Mac OS X or Windows or Linux or Solaris or BeOS or MS DOS.

And you can't run 2 OS'es on one box, unless you run them under a hypervisor.

Kees

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