The Safe@ and Edge boxes don't have a rackmount available yet, but they're pretty small. We use a couple of Safe@ boxes in site-to-site VPNs with the main firewall and they just stay up.
You can get mirrored drives in a Nokia IP530 or you could use SPLAT. I personally wouldn't feel comfortable running my whole company on anything less than a "real" firewall box.
We've got almost twenty times more local and remote users than you and we just went to a pair of T-1's on an IP530. We did add a caching proxy server a couple of years ago for web access (Microsoft ISA 2000) and that dropped our Internet line usage from 90%+ to about 60%. The cost of the ISA hardware and software paid for itself in less than a year because we didn't have to add a second T-1.
Ray
From: Hal Dorsman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Mailing list for discussion of Firewall-1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [FW-1] Request for comments on appliance platform selection Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 08:47:09 -0600
Greetings firewallers,
I have been running FW-1 on Solaris for years, but recently have been having concerns about support from the rest of the local IT team without experience in Solaris. I am thinking an appliance with VPN-1 would be a more user friendly solution and easier for general support in the group. Checkpoint has a nice platform selection guide which provides a good overview and good product information, but I was interested in comments from the group on satisfaction and good/bad experiences with the various products. If anyone can provide any links to any recent comparitive product evaluation articles that would be appreciated. We have about 100 users locally on a T-1 and may upgrade to dual T-1's eventually. Have only 5-10 remote VPN users, and about 50 remote users accessing a secure intranet site, and maybe hosting our own low use website later, so traffic is not high, but a DMZ interface required. I am thinking one of the SafeOffice, Nokia, or VPN Edge appliances would be most practical. I would like something rackable so I am also interested in one of the basic OS installs that I could put on a 1U rack server.
Any comments greatly appreciated.
thanks,
Hal
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