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Subject: router preference: hardware or software?
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What is the prevailing wisdom for the gateway between private LAN and the net:

a separate hardware box (firewall/gateway/NAT) or the FreeBSD box running 
ipfw/natd/qmail/BIND/whatever?

security?  reliability?  convenience?

Thanks for your comments,
Flash

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