at this question i must remember the old times: my atari800 is better
than your c64....

the pix 515 is fine for people, prefering console and interested in a
good environment for debugging. but you can't do anything with pix.
for beginners, a webinterface for configuration is available, but the
results of it looks ....
on my experience, the pix can handle a throughput on very complex
configurations (nat, acl, failover, 5 interfaces in use) up to about
80mbit/s without problems.

ok, lets wait for other mails of people, working with watchguard,
netscreen, checkpoint, .....
but every product has two sides and at the end it's your decision.

dirk


o28aces wrote:

> My company is looking to purchase a firewall; we are looking at the
> Watchguard 4500 and the Cisco PIX 515.  Our communication lines that
> we use are 3 T1 lines.  We have 14 employees in the office and a
> development website.  When the website goes live it could have 500
> concurrent users on it.   We would like a firewall that is reliable
> and somewhat easy to configure.  I have heard the Watchguard is
> easier to configure, but Cisco PIX are one of the best firewall, but
> a little harder to get up and going.  Any suggestions would be gladly
> accepted.
>
> Thanks Beldon
>
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