I just finished an interesting article in Network Computing comparing firewalls. I don't know their web site, but you might want to check. Bottom line: PIX rules, almost everything else dies under significant load (including my first hand experience with FW-1).
Justin Fields wrote: >Hi. > >I'm looking for some suggestions on firewall products for a small business. >There seem to be a wide range of options in the $500-$1500 range. > >Some of the products I'm looking at include: >Sonicwall Pro 100 >Symantec VelociRaptor >Symantec Firewall Appliance 200 >Cisco Pix 506 >Nokia ?? > > >Does anyone have good information sites that I could use to help compare >different firewalls? I have looked at each manufacturer's site, but was >looking for ratings, comparisons and such. A "Consumer-Reports" style list >of pros, cons and ratings would be great. > >We have about a dozen workstations, 2 e-mail servers, 2 web servers and 2 >file servers. One of the web servers is going to be an extranet, so that >will need to be accessible from the outside. The whole company is at the one >location. Our connectivity is a full T-1, and we would like to be able to >keep the firewall from being a bottleneck. (T-1 throughput seems pretty low >for firewalls, really.) > >Whatever we buy should be fairly flexible and easy to maintain. > >Ideas? > >Thanks. > >Justin Fields >_______________________________________________ >Firewalls mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://lists.gnac.net/mailman/listinfo/firewalls > _______________________________________________ Firewalls mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnac.net/mailman/listinfo/firewalls
