Lol, I was gonna reply to Kom* 's post on firewalls but the thread seems to have vansished!

Anyways since my reply wasn't about Kom*, I decided to post anyway:

Sometimes I get annoyed by the distinction people make of software and hardware firewalls...
When does a software firewall becomes a hardware firewall? Is a dedicated openbsd box with only ipf or pf running on a hardware firewall? I mean, I doubt that any company as actually build a firewall chip (by this I mean a chip with firewalling logic on it, not a process on a CPU)?

Ammo