Originally Posted By: Lonkero

back to arend's comment, isn't your pc a hardware device. so if you have winxp firewall turned on, you have a hardware firewall? again, that definition is so vague that it has no meaning.


Technically a PC running a firewall as an addition to the OS is a software firewall.
A hardware firewall is a device dedicated for this purpose alone.
For instance this is the kind of firewall I´m talking about Draytek Vigor 2950