Routers Vs. Firewall
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are these things the same thing?
Im under the impression of yes but everyone at the office wants to fight me and tell me otherwise,
So What do you think?*Routers and firewalls: Firewalls having routing capabilities, but routers don't always have firewall compatibility.
My boss's argument: A router is a device that forwards data packets alongnetworks. A router is connected to at least two networks, commonly two LANs or WANs or a LAN and its ISP'snetwork. Routers are located at gateways, the places where two or more networks connect.A firewall is a system designed to prevent unauthorized access to or from a privatenetwork. You can implement a firewall in either hardware or software form, or a combination of both. Firewalls prevent unauthorized internet users from accessing private networks connected to the internet, especially intranets
help me figure this out?
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@wrcombs said in Routers Vs. Firewall:
A router is connected to at least two networks, commonly two LANs or WANs or a LAN and its ISP'snetwork.
AKA a firewall... LOL
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@wrcombs said in Routers Vs. Firewall:
Routers are located at gateways, the places where two or more networks connect.
A firewall is a system designed to prevent unauthorized access to or from a privatenetwork.Sounds like he's talking about the same thing here... just switch the wording and they can still make sense.
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@wrcombs said in Routers Vs. Firewall:
You can implement a firewall in either hardware or software form, or a combination of both.
Same thing with Routers....
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@wrcombs said in Routers Vs. Firewall:
Firewalls prevent unauthorized internet users from accessing private networks connected to the internet, especially intranets
And he said the same thing with Routers here:
@wrcombs said in Routers Vs. Firewall:
A router is connected to at least two networks, commonly two LANs or WANs or a LAN and its ISP'snetwork
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"firewalls can do what routers can, but routers can't do exactly the same as a firewall, I can configure a firewall to block ports, and can do much more on a firewall than I could with. Router"
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@scottalanmiller what do you think? @JaredBusch ?
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The argument I'm getting is that they can't do the same things.
Routers can't block access (this is the main thing)
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@wrcombs said in Routers Vs. Firewall:
The argument I'm getting is that they can't do the same things.
Routers can't block access (this is the main thing)
What do you mean they can't block access? That's exactly what routing does via ACLs.
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@wrcombs said in Routers Vs. Firewall:
The argument I'm getting is that they can't do the same things.
Routers can't block access (this is the main thing)
Of course it cannot.
But a router is never only a router in today's world. Every single router is a router and a firewall.
The two are never sold separately. Well there might be some super rare ting that I have never heard of that is a router only and not a firewall. But again, I have never heard of this product.
p.s Yes I know core routers out on the internet backbone are router only. But we are talking about endpoint routers here.
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@wrcombs said in Routers Vs. Firewall:
Im under the impression of yes but everyone at the office wants to fight me and tell me otherwise,
So What do you think?That you should only get into these kinds of discussions with IT people. Random people don't understand these IT terms and will say anything based on airport marketing campaigns they saw once while going to Disney World.
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@scottalanmiller said in Routers Vs. Firewall:
@wrcombs said in Routers Vs. Firewall:
Im under the impression of yes but everyone at the office wants to fight me and tell me otherwise,
So What do you think?That you should only get into these kinds of discussions with IT people. Random people don't understand these IT terms and will say anything based on airport marketing campaigns they saw once while going to Disney World.
LOL I simply made a comment and it turned into a huge thing
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@wrcombs said in Routers Vs. Firewall:
*Routers and firewalls: Firewalls having routing capabilities, but routers don't always have firewall compatibility.
This is not technically true. You CAN make a firewall that can't route, this is a bridge-based Firewall and Untangle, for example, has this option. You CAN make a router that doesn't do firewalling.
But neither of these things exists on the market in the real world. There is no firewall on the market that doesn't do routing, and there is definitely not been a router on the market that doesn't firewall since at least the early 1990s. I've literally never seen or heard of one, but know that they did exist once upon a time.
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@wrcombs said in Routers Vs. Firewall:
My boss's argument: A router is a device that forwards data packets alongnetworks. A router is connected to at least two networks, commonly two LANs or WANs or a LAN and its ISP'snetwork. Routers are located at gateways, the places where two or more networks connect.
That's an "argument"? How does this not describe a firewall?
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@wrcombs said in Routers Vs. Firewall:
"firewalls can do what routers can, but routers can't do exactly the same as a firewall, I can configure a firewall to block ports, and can do much more on a firewall than I could with. Router"
Name any router that can't do that. There is none.
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@wrcombs said in Routers Vs. Firewall:
The argument I'm getting is that they can't do the same things.
Routers can't block access (this is the main thing)
But that's not true. They all can. All.
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@obsolesce said in Routers Vs. Firewall:
@wrcombs said in Routers Vs. Firewall:
The argument I'm getting is that they can't do the same things.
Routers can't block access (this is the main thing)
What do you mean they can't block access? That's exactly what routing does via ACLs.
And NAT. And PAT.
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@wrcombs said in Routers Vs. Firewall:
@scottalanmiller said in Routers Vs. Firewall:
@wrcombs said in Routers Vs. Firewall:
Im under the impression of yes but everyone at the office wants to fight me and tell me otherwise,
So What do you think?That you should only get into these kinds of discussions with IT people. Random people don't understand these IT terms and will say anything based on airport marketing campaigns they saw once while going to Disney World.
LOL I simply made a comment and it turned into a huge thing
End users are like that
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@jaredbusch said in Routers Vs. Firewall:
p.s Yes I know core routers out on the internet backbone are router only. But we are talking about endpoint routers here.
Even those have ACLs today. They might not enact them, but the option is there.
