Talk:Comparison of firewalls

Incorrect! Netfilter (iptables) _does_ support MAC address filtering.

Pretty poor. What about ZoneAlarm, Symantec, Sunbelt Kerio, Comodo and some of the other big ones?

--- Not only that, much of the information is misleading. Checkpoint's features are incorrectly listed on the page

--- --- Agreed, the Checkpoint features are either wrong or severely outdated. I'm going to update that most obvious.

No anti-virus/IDS/sniffer on windows? Poor... at best... If we're counting in add-on software for Linux (wireshark, openvpn) let's do it too for windows. Updating on that. After second analysis, pretty much all info here is incomplete at best. Even though my personal knowledge is limited to Windows and Linux, I believe that iptables supports all features listed in the comparison. Of course Windows XP not being in a server family perhaps shouldn't even be in the comparison (perhaps Windows Server family) and even then, using third-party, I believe that most features can be supported. Given that portability of Linux software, a wide range of network applications have been ported to the Win32 architecture (nmap, ethereal, name them...).

I think that this article should also mention if the firewalls in question are open source or cost money to use. Dedderek 23:00, 12 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

-TODOs:

-add performance comparison tables

-add linked pages with configuration examples. This will make this page popular among network & security students & professionals.

-add more firewalls software to the tables (especially Norton Personal Firewall, BlackICE and ZoneAlarm)

-by Fenix*NBK*, 2.10.2006. (for questions email me at al4321@gmail.com)

-add iptables extentions such as NuFw

-add versions of the compared software

- separate personal firewalls from network firewalls