Why are hardware firewall for dialup connections rarely used?

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Gary Helfert

In an earlier post I asked about hardware firewalls for dialup connections.
It appears there are a few out there but wonder why there are so rare.
Do they slow the speed of the connection or do software firewalls just make
them redundant?
 
| In an earlier post I asked about hardware firewalls for dialup connections.
| It appears there are a few out there but wonder why there are so rare.
| Do they slow the speed of the connection or do software firewalls just make
| them redundant?

One word -- Broadband.

There were more models of RS-232 NAT Routers but they are not economically feasable to
manuafcture as Broadband has entered the market. For a while there were many Broadband
Routers with a RS-232 port for a backup DUN connection but they were manufactured less as
well. However, there are a few vendors that still manufacture them. Just not as many as
say 5 years ago.
 
from the wonderful person said:
| In an earlier post I asked about hardware firewalls for dialup connections.
| It appears there are a few out there but wonder why there are so rare.
| Do they slow the speed of the connection or do software firewalls just make
| them redundant?

One word -- Broadband.

There were more models of RS-232 NAT Routers but they are not
economically feasable to
manuafcture as Broadband has entered the market. For a while there
were many Broadband
Routers with a RS-232 port for a backup DUN connection but they were
manufactured less as
well. However, there are a few vendors that still manufacture them.
Just not as many as
say 5 years ago.
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I have hardware firewall on my broadband+ISDN router (of which I only
use the ISDN part, BT having failed miserably to bring broadband out
here). 'Tiz expensive though (but worth it when you consider the
alternatives to an ISDN router).
 
As said:
"Gary Helfert" wrote
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One word -- Broadband.

There were more models of RS-232 NAT Routers but they are not
economically feasable to manuafcture as Broadband has entered
the market. For a while there were many Broadband Routers with
a RS-232 port for a backup DUN connection but they were manufactured
less as well. However, there are a few vendors that still manufacture
them. Just not as many as say 5 years ago.
Click to expand...

Earlier models of D-Link's DI-704P (the ones with the dark gray cases,
not the newer silver ones) had such a port. They're probably still
available from time to time on eBay. That model also featured a
parallel port for a printer connection, as well.
 
| As viewed from alt.comp.anti-virus, David H. Lipman wrote:
|
|| "Gary Helfert" wrote
||| In an earlier post I asked about hardware firewalls for dialup
||| connections. It appears there are a few out there but wonder
||| why there are so rare. Do they slow the speed of the connection
||| or do software firewalls just make them redundant?
|
|| One word -- Broadband.
||
|| There were more models of RS-232 NAT Routers but they are not
|| economically feasable to manuafcture as Broadband has entered
|| the market. For a while there were many Broadband Routers with
|| a RS-232 port for a backup DUN connection but they were manufactured
|| less as well. However, there are a few vendors that still manufacture
|| them. Just not as many as say 5 years ago.
|
| Earlier models of D-Link's DI-704P (the ones with the dark gray cases,
| not the newer silver ones) had such a port. They're probably still
| available from time to time on eBay. That model also featured a
| parallel port for a printer connection, as well.
|
| --
| Jafo

Asante used to make the FR3004c but they discontinued it.
 
I use one for my dial-up ISP. I don't notice any appreciable slow down
over straight dial-up. However, routers with a serial port for dial-up
are hard to find. I guess just no demand. Most folks who go for a
router also go for broadband. Two current wire only routers with a
dial-up port are SMC7004ABR and DLink DI-804HV. Two with wired ports as
well as wireless are Netgear FWG-114P and DLink DI-824VUP.

Good luck, jimbo
 
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