Topic: Modem with firewall/SME FW

[jonash]

Hi,
I will change to a new ISP. This new one gives away a Thomson SpeedTouch 716g. It's a modem with FW, WLAN, etc.

Through integration with Hyper-NAT, the firewall leverages all the Application Level Gateways provided in the Hyper-NAT context to minimize undesired service impact. The SpeedTouch firewall provides stateful inspection of packets, and an integrated Denial of Service (DoS) engine monitors a wide range of attack patterns, and logs potential security breaches to a local cache or remote server.

Hopefully its possible to open specific ports in the firewall...

Whats your opinion of using a modem's firewall only, and just use the server mode on SME?  Is it good enough?

Is there anyone out there who has this modem, and can give some hints?

Thanks!
Jonas[/b]