A plug'n'play firewall is hard to find. There's a lot of tweaking on a firewall that if you don't do it then what's the point on having one. I hope you didn't mean it but I assume you want a solution wasy enough to administer and put in place.
Although we don't have a setup like yours, we use Watchguard and it has been very good. Besides a couple hickups over 6 years, we like it, it's easy to use and do its job. Of course you can go with checkpoint, cisco pix and pay $5k or more for a similar product. Their support is good and there's an active user forum where you can get answers right away. From what I know, they can do all of what you need. Their boxes run a linux based set with no shell access. Elliott -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Ulrich Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 9:04 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [IMail Forum] OT: Need a Recommendation on a Really Good Firewall We've been running a name-brand firewall for a while now. Over the last couple of weeks, we've seen a loss of traffic, people having difficulty connecting, etc. Traffic doesn't seem much higher, we've rebooted the heck out of it, routers, etc.... We are upgrading our network (moving to a new facility) so it's probably a good time to upgrade anyway. I'm looking for something that can: 1. Be redundant (run 2 firewalls for failover) 2. Full port controls, monitor active connections, etc. 3. VPN 4. Automatic DOS detection and blocking 5. Load balancing between firewalls 6. Internal load balancer functionality (if available) (ie. balance traffic between 3 web servers) Price isn't the biggest factor; something solid, reliable and bullet-proof if the focus. Please don't recommend X app on a linux box. Not to start a religious war, but we don't do any Linux, not interested in learning it, etc. Plug and play, baby. Thanks To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
