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A firewall?
The FireBrick 105 is a hardware firewall - put simply it prevents direct attack to your network from the internet. You can simply plug it in between your internet router and your network and it will provide protection immediately without any configuration or setting up at all. Your network can be firewalled within 60 seconds of opening the box.

Home or office use
It acts as a main gateway to the internet for your network whether you have one PC or 500 PCs, and whether you have a 64Kb/s leased line or an 8Mb/s ADSL link, the FireBrick fits the bill. There are no ongoing charges, per user licenses or fees for software upgrades.

Much more than just a firewall...
The FireBrick 105 can do much more. As standard it is a small managed 10/100 network switch with auto crossover ports. It provides web based configuration; state tracking filtering; normal and stealth routing; named IP and port groups for ease of setup; multiple subnets; DHCP server with persistent allocation; DHCP client; network address translation (NAT); Event logging and basic on-screen stats. It even has a built in cable tester to help find basic network faults, as well as lots of little features like DNS relay and time server.

This is just the beginning, as the FireBrick 105 also has a range of optional extra features including traffic shaping; VPN tunneling to other FireBricks; SNMP; emailed logs; syslog logs; address and port mapping; multiple gateway traffic bonding; multiple route load sharing NAT; time, manual and ping based control profiles; fallback routing; and VLAN subnets. It can even provide full 5 port operation allowing multiple independent demilitarized zones (DMZs).

The FireBrick 105 is the successor to the highly successful FireBrick SoHo and Plus models and comes with a host of new features.