Well, to be fair *I* haven't looked at it yet myself. It's been in the hands of two of my junior people; at least one of whom is generally very capable and has deployed several other firewall/routers of other vendors in the past. But he's spent the better part of all day trying to get the Juniper working and finally has resorted to having Juniper tech support remote in and try to get it working.
Apparently even the Juniper support person has spent quite a bit of time wrestling with it to only mixed results. It gives me some pause that even a Juniper support engineer would struggle with getting this unit configured. But I've still got 2200 more pages of the manual to read so... Ben M. Schorr Chief Executive Officer ______________________________________________ Roland Schorr & Tower www.rolandschorr.com <http://www.rolandschorr.com/> b...@rolandschorr.com <mailto:b...@rolandschorr.com> From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 8:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Small/Mid Firewall? Really? IPSec VPNs are one of the easiest things to configure on those devices. In fairness, however, I've been using Netscreen devices since Feb 2000, so that might simply be familiarity talking. The VPN wizard is very straightforward ASB (My XeeSM Profile) <http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker> Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage... On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Ben Schorr <b...@rolandschorr.com> wrote: Update: We went with the Juniper SSG-5. I think we're going to like it but good grief this thing is complicated! We're having to open a tech support incident with Juniper just to get the IPSEC VPN configured. The manuals we downloaded for it are almost 2300 pages long! I look forward to getting up to speed on this device, it does seem very capable. Just a learning curve like an alp. J Ben M. Schorr Chief Executive Officer ______________________________________________ Roland Schorr & Tower www.rolandschorr.com <http://www.rolandschorr.com/> b...@rolandschorr.com <mailto:b...@rolandschorr.com> From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2010 4:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Small/Mid Firewall? Fortinet 50B Juniper SSG5 ASB (My XeeSM Profile) <http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker> Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage... On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Ben Schorr <b...@rolandschorr.com> wrote: What's everybody recommending these days for the small/mid-sized firewall? I have a client with about 75 users scattered across three locations. They've been using a SnapGear SG580 at their central location but it died this morning. Needs: * IPSEC & PPTP (or L2TP) VPN support * Dual WAN capability with load-balance/failover. * Preferably under $800 We looked at the NetGear ProSafe line but were wondering if there's anything better? Not a huge fan of SonicWall and their "pay per user" model. Ben M. Schorr Chief Executive Officer ______________________________________________ Roland Schorr & Tower - Flagstaff Office 2700 S. Woodlands Village Blvd. Suite 300-371 Flagstaff, AZ 86001 928-377-5630 Fax: 808-533-3677 www.rolandschorr.com <http://www.rolandschorr.com/> b...@rolandschorr.com ~ 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
