With this BW requirement you would be better to go with an offering from Cisco or Juniper probably as they are the largest providers of Internet Routers/Firewalls and have many offerings that can be configured to meet a variety of different infrastructures.
The Symantec appliances are limited/licensed/priced by connections unless they have changed they way they were doing things a few years ago when we were looking at them... Justin Dixon, CCNA CyberSharks.Net, Inc. http://www.cybersharks.net -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Ulrich Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 11:29 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] OT: Need a Recommendation on a Really Good Firewall By plug-n-play, I didn't really mean "set it and forget it" but rather an integrated device (as opposed to a software app to download and install on a custom compiled version of *nix) They definitely require tweaking, no doubt about it. But I meant something more along the lines of a Cisco, Checkpoint, etc.... Any experience with Symantec firewalls? Are they solid or really more for small-biz use? Need to potentially handle ~ 20mb bandwidth Thanks At 10:33 AM 3/23/2005, you wrote: >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/ 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/ 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/
