Al,
>For any machine connected to the Internet there should be a hardware firewall, even if it's just something as inexpensive as a Linksys WRT-54GL (~$60) upgraded with dd-WRT firmware (free).
Why would you need to upgrade the firmware, isn't the 54GL a hardware firewall anyways?
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