Commonsense & Choice of a Firewall

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George Orwell wrote:
> The rest of the page is here:
> http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/tutorial60.html
>
> For the rest of this tutorial we will predominantly focus on personal
> firewalls that are installed on your computer, though many of the
> topics discussed here apply to hardware firewalls as well.

A PFW is not a FW, it doesn't sit between two networks. It's only a
machine level packet filter protecting at the machine level.

http://www.vicomsoft.com/knowledge/reference/firewalls1.html

NAT is not FW software either, which the impostors are being explained
in the link below.

http://www.more.net/technical/netserv/tcpip/firewalls/