My bad. I bought a Sophos AP 30 to go along with the firewall hardware. This AP alone was about 45% of the total cost of the project, but I still saved a good chunk of change over the SonicWall TZ + SonicPoint solution that I had been planning on buying before finding the Sophos home license.
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 8:42 PM, Kurt Buff <kurt.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > So your wireless is served elsewise? > > Kurt > > On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Richard Stovall <rich...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I chose to build a new system so it would be small and silent rather than > > use an old computer lying around the house. > > > > I went with: > > > > Intel D2500CCE fanless mini-ITX motherboard (Dual core 1.86 GHz Atom CPU > > with dual Intel NICs onboard) > > > > 4 GB RAM > > > > 128GB Vertex 4 SSD > > > > It has been in 'production' for a couple of weeks now, and is stable and > > very fast. I also really like having the content filtering and antivirus > > capabilities of a UTM firewall at home. > > > > The management interface is a little weird at first, but you get used to > it. > > > > I demo'ed the software in a VirtualBox VM for a week or so before pulling > > the trigger on the hardware expense. > > > > If anyone is interested, the page at Sophos describing the offering is: > > > http://www.sophos.com/en-us/products/free-tools/sophos-utm-home-edition.aspx > > > > > > > > On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Kurt Buff <kurt.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> Our Sidewinders are EOL at the end of April, and my manager doesn't like > >> them. > >> > >> He's a Cisco bigot, and wants ASAs in here. > >> > >> I'm fighting him to at least take a look at the Palo Alto platform, or > >> perhaps the newest iteration of the Sidewinders (which are now called > >> McAfee Enteprise Firewalls). > >> > >> That's an interesting tip on the Sophos solution. What did you use for > >> the hardware? > >> > >> Kurt > >> > >> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Richard Stovall <rich...@gmail.com> > >> wrote: > >> > I was going to suggest using the SonicPoint solution from SonicWall, > but > >> > you've got Sidewinders, don't you? > >> > > >> > Does McAfee have anything like SonicWall's wireless solution where > it's > >> > all > >> > managed from the firewall? > >> > > >> > PS Sophos has this too, and they give their UTM firewall away free > for > >> > home > >> > use. Just bring your own hardware. I just switched to this the other > >> > day > >> > and love it so far. I should write a blog post about it. (But then > I'd > >> > have to create a blog...) > >> > > >> > > >> > On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Kurt Buff <kurt.b...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> >> > >> >> All, > >> >> > >> >> Quite some time ago, I set up an unsecured guest VLAN in our network, > >> >> providing wireless access to all of the sundry devices that staff and > >> >> visitors carry. I set up a small FreeBSD machine to serve IP > addresses > >> >> via DHCP, and that was dead simple. > >> >> > >> >> It is a layer2 VLAN, traversing our backbone, and terminating on our > >> >> corporate firewall. > >> >> > >> >> However, there are now other tenants in our building, and the subnet > >> >> is getting too much bandwidth and address consumption - the range I > >> >> set up is completely filled, and the VLAN is consuming about half of > >> >> our Internet pipe, which is far too much for my comfort. > >> >> > >> >> I suspect the other tenants are leeching. > >> >> > >> >> What I've read of captive portals seems to indicate that the portal > is > >> >> part of the firewall. I could be wrong about that, though. > Regardless, > >> >> the > >> >> corporate firewall will not be allowed to be part of this solution. > >> >> > >> >> The only other alternative I see right now is to set up a password on > >> >> the SSID, and have the front desk hand it out to guests, after > mailing > >> >> it to staff, and I'm getting pushback on that from my manager. > >> >> > >> >> Does anyone have some ideas I could pursue on this? > >> >> > >> >> Thanks, > >> >> > >> >> Kurt > >> >> > >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > >> >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > >> >> > >> >> --- > >> >> To manage subscriptions click here: > >> >> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > >> >> or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > >> >> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > >> > > >> > > >> > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > >> > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > >> > > >> > --- > >> > To manage subscriptions click here: > >> > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > >> > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > >> > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > >> > >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > >> > >> --- > >> To manage subscriptions click here: > >> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > >> or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > >> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > --- > > To manage subscriptions click here: > > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
