On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 18:42:25 +0800 (PHT), Manny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone have an idea how much the locally-available firewall > appliances are going for? Would you think these prices are reasonable? if > not, would it be better to buy abroad and just bring it in through > friends? What do you guys think?
For only 1 million pesos you can have a Cisco catalyst 6500 series (I think the prices have gone down or up...). Lots of ports and includes a PIX module too. The smaller ones should be much cheaper. :) It's fairly cheaper outside, but bringing it in would subject that item to tax - but still you manage to save some tens of thousands of pesos. > I've got a possible client who's interested. I've brought up the idea of > using Smoothwall, but they seem inclined towards a turnkey solution that's > easy to administer. So they're looking at one of those rack-mounted > thingies. They're kidding if there's anything in enterprise-grade equipment such as a turnkey solution that's easy to administer. These monsters take skill and experience to administer :) -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
