Brian Burns wrote:
>
> Any and all feedback would be appreciated on the SonicWALL, as well as
> viable alternatives...
I snipped a small response from the firewall-wizards list:
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: SonicWall
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 06:47:11 -0800
From: James Neal - HandiCAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: James Neal - HandiCAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "John Robertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In message <013701bf6d72$f8785c00$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>you write:
>Can anybody body give me any information regarding the SonicWall range =
>of firewalls. I am particularly looking at the pros and cons.
Well, the pros are it's pretty inexpensive.
The cons list is a tad bit longer. We've spent the last two months with
a SonicWall PRO sitting between us and the Internet (after an
ill-advised, and ill-received upgrade).
Con #1: Any rule change necessitates a reboot of the device,
dropping all active connections to the Internet.
Con #2: The configuration file isn't in a user-edititable form.
You _must_ configure this thing through the web interface.
Though you can then backup the configuration file, it's in an
encrypted format.
Con #3: No secure configuration interface. Not even an
SSL-capable webserver.
Con #4: Extreme flakiness. 1:1 NAT often _just stops
working_. The packet enters the box, but then never leaves.
To get it to work again we have to ping the inside box _from
the sonicwall_. That fixes it for about 20 minutes.
Con #5: Poor logging. What happened to the packet in #4? Who
knows; nothing shows up in the logs.
Con #6: Poor support. Email only. A heck of a lot of good
that does you when you're firewall is busted.
There's others, but I'd like to give Sonic the chance to address them
before posting them to a public forum.
-James
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