Having a hardware firewall that's more advanced than the one built into a consumer router is a good start, with properly configured rules to drop potentially malicious traffic before it gets onto ...

Intel NICs are more compatible, but the low-powered devices sold as routers and firewall replacements often have other hardware components that have similar issues or quirks. Plus, even enterprise ...

Ports are opened and closed in the firewall. Consumer routers such as the wireless router commonly found in homes and small businesses have a built-in firewall. Fresh out of the box, all incoming ...