First, here's what you can expect in just about any SOHO firewall:
- Real firewall functionality, including the ability to hide your IP address, reject external attempts to access the network, prevent responses to ping packets and similar traffic. You might also see packet inspection, so that you can keep out types of traffic you don't want, such as instant messaging or peer-to-peer connections.
- Network management capabilities, including network address translation, DHCP client and server, DNS forwarding, logging, and a Web-based management GUI.
- Security features such as the ability to originate a VPN tunnel.
- If a wireless access point is included, the ability to encrypt the wireless traffic.
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