> There seems to be a real lack in the "in-the-middle" range?!
> Say you have a business that needs a firewall and it falls into the
> 10-100
> (or even <200) users range, it seems that they are out of luck.
> B/c they likely can't afford was seems to be a minimum $4000 touch for
> the
> low end big boys and a $29.95 SOHO/personal FW isn't going to meet
> their
> needs by a long shot?
I would venture to say that people in businesses around that size usually have a
sysadmin who is sufficiently capable with UNIX to set up packet filtering firewalls
with IPChains, IPFilter, or what have you, running on stripped down BSD or Linux
boxes. (OpenBSD being my personal preference for such a job.) It's not a fancy proxy
firewall, but it's cheap, and if you know enough about TCP/IP (and you need to know
quite a bit, I'm afraid) it can do the job. Do you have any such staff members?
Mike
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Michael Owen
IT Security Engineer
NET-TEL Computer Systems Ltd
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