Frequently Asked Questions

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A FIREWALL APPLIANCE, LIKE HOTBRICK, AND A ROUTER WITH FIREWALL FEATURES?

Features and price. Routers with firewall features may provide a DHCP server, PAT/NAT services, 1-8 physical ports to network computers. NAT hides your computer(s) from the Internet, which makes it a simple but some-what effective firewall. Firewall appliances, like HotBrick, provide additional features like built-in stateful packet inspection (SPI), support for Virtual Private Networking (VPN), Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), content filters, and much more.