[ale] best FIREWALL product for a home LAN ?

[Robert Story]

On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:33:21 -0500 Courtney wrote:
CT> Just finished Bruce Schneier's book Secrets and Lies which inspired me to
CT> try to implement a suitable firewall for my home lan which has a variety of
CT> machines, MS, FreeBSD, Linux, Apple, etc..
CT> 
CT> Suggestions and opinions appreciated.

I like OpenWRT on a wireless router (mine is the Linksys WRT54GL) + shorewall
for a few reasons. The 2 most important being:

- no need for a full pc on 24x7
- supports vlans on the 4 lan ports, so you can segment your network