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arcimedes · 13-02-2011, 09:46

There is no such thing as a hardware firewall, its just that the firewall in the router is commonly known as hardware to distinguish it from a firewall in a PC. Stupid and confusing really. Firewalls doing Statefull Packet Inspection (SPI) are alledged to consume too many CPU cycles in the router. Dont know how true it is but as NAT basically does the same thing I have mine switched off.

13-02-2011, 09:46	#18
arcimedes Inactive Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Oxfordshire Services: TV XL ,TiVo X 2, 200Mb Broadband XL phone Posts: 1,158	*Re: 20Mb Wired Connection Problems (Superhub)** There is no such thing as a hardware firewall, its just that the firewall in the router is commonly known as hardware to distinguish it from a firewall in a PC. Stupid and confusing really. Firewalls doing Statefull Packet Inspection (SPI) are alledged to consume too many CPU cycles in the router. Dont know how true it is but as NAT basically does the same thing I have mine switched off.