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aqua85
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 Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 10:57 pm Post subject: I need a firewall that uses little RAM... |
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I have an old IBM laptop that has only 96 MB of RAM, running windows 2000. What firewall uses the least amount of RAM and is reliable? Thanks!
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Cudni
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| Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 11:57 pm Post subject: |
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Look'n Stop maybe?
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aqua85
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| Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 1:42 am Post subject: okay |
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Haven't heard of that one, I'll check it out. Thanks  Does anyone else have a recommendation?
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| Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 2:51 am Post subject: Re: okay |
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For a good "light" firewall, Look 'n Stop is probably the best, but there is no free version. If you are looking for a free and very light firewall there is an older version of Kerio 2.1.5 here:
http://www.freeware-guide.com/dir/util/firewall.html
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TestMan
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| Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 5:52 pm Post subject: |
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With that little RAM Sygate or Kerio 2.15 would work,but LookNStop would be even lighter.
I have used these three over time and LnS has the lightest footprint.You have to pay for it though.
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| Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 7:21 am Post subject: |
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For about the same price as Look n Stop, I recommend that you...
1) Buy a router (superb incoming protection)
2) Install freebie Kerio 2.1.5 (link was given in a prior post) -- it uses ~4765 RAM.
OPTION to Kerio is another superb freebie called A-wall. It is equally as light as Kerio.
Bottom Line-- A router plus Kerio 2.1.5 or A-wall will give waaaay better protection that a software firewall alone can do, for about the same price as a NON-free software firewall.
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bellgamin
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| Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 7:23 am Post subject: |
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Uh.... that's 4765K ram for Kerio. (Why the heck won't they let you edit posts in this forum?)
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TestMan
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| Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 6:11 pm Post subject: |
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Aqua,
What type of internet connection do you have?
If you have dial-up,a router is not needed.
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| Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 9:07 pm Post subject: |
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| TestMan wrote: | Aqua,
What type of internet connection do you have?
If you have dial-up,a router is not needed. |
A router is ESSENTIAL as a major major hardwired firewall that gives waaaay more powerful incoming protection than does any software firewall. This is true whether you use broadband or dial-up, and is also true whether you have one computer or a network of two or more computers.
In the present state of security attacks, a router is essential for anyone and everyone who uses the internet.
| Quote: | Routers were created to *route* internet input/output between multiple computers sharing a single IP address/internet connection (that is, a LAN or local area network).
However, routers work just fine with a single computer -- a *1-computer LAN* so to speak.
As a hardware firewall, a router prevents unsolicited, unexpected, unwanted, and potentially dangerous traffic from passing through the router and entering the your private computer(s).
Since the router links the internal private network to the Internet, it sees everything sent out to the Internet by the computer(s) on the LAN. It memorizes each outgoing packet's destination IP and port number in an internal "connections" table and assigns the packet its own IP and one of its own ports for accepting the return traffic. Finally, it records this information, along with the IP address of the internal machine on the LAN that sent the outgoing packet, in a "current connections" table.
When any incoming packets arrive at the router from the Internet, the router scans its "current connections" table to see whether this data is expected by looking for the remote IP and port number in the current connections table. If a match is found, the table entry also tells the router which computer in the private LAN is expecting to receive the incoming traffic from that remote address. So the router re-addresses (translates) the packet to that internal machine and sends it into the LAN.
If the arriving packet does not exactly match traffic that is currently expected by the router, the router figures that it's just unwanted "Internet noise" and discards the unsolicited packet of data.
With a NAT router protecting your connection to the Internet — even if you only have one computer on the LAN behind the router — none of the Internet scanning and worms and hackers and other annoying and malicious Internet nonsense can get IN, to your computer or computers. |
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| Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 9:23 pm Post subject: |
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Further research reveals that routers for dial-up (if that's what you are on) are indeed few & far between. Here's ONE.
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| Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 12:12 pm Post subject: |
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I'm on dialup and as long as my software firewall gets a "Tru Stealth" rating at Shields Up, I feel that a router is redundant.
Bellgamin,
How much does WiFlyer cost?
Looks like $129.00!?
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| TestMan wrote: | I'm on dialup and as long as my software firewall gets a "Tru Stealth" rating at Shields Up, I feel that a router is redundant.
Bellgamin,
How much does WiFlyer cost?
Looks like $129.00!? |
I don't know the price.
Admittedly, as long as you are on dial-up, a router is less essential. The main reason this is so is not so much because your software firewall passes some leak tests. Rather, the main thing you have going for you is that your IP changes everytime you make a new connection.
Nevertheless, NO software firewall passes all the leak tests. Give it a try for yourself at THIS web page.
You can also view Test Results at THIS web page. For example LnS failed 7 of 18 leak tests, and it is one of "the best." By the way, leak tests primarily test your outgoing protection. Unless the nasty gets into your computer in the first place, it cannot be "outgoing." Therefore, strong incoming protection is very important. A router protects against incoming nastiness MUCH better than any software firewall.
However (as I noted above) with dial-up you make a MUCH smaller incoming target -- because of your computer's constantly changing IP.
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Buy a router with NAT. 
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