Re: Watchguard appliances

2010-03-17 Thread James Kerr
ot;Jim von Stein" To: "NT System Admin Issues" Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 5:03 PM Subject: RE: Watchguard appliances We've been running a Firebox X550e since last August. It took a while, and some support, to get it properly configured, but it's been very low

RE: Watchguard appliances

2010-03-17 Thread Jim von Stein
Jim von Stein Information Services Administrator SOASTC -Original Message- From: Phillip Partipilo [mailto:p...@psnet.com] Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 9:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Watchguard appliances Curious to hear of experiences with their appliances and supp

RE: Watchguard appliances

2010-03-16 Thread greg.sweers
System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Watchguard appliances I used both Enterprise and SoHo firewalls, and was frustrated with both. Now strictly use Sonicwalls. Jay Dale I.T. Manager, 3GiG Mobile: 713.299.2541 Email: jay.d...@3-gig.com <mailto:kandy.luk...@3-gig.com> Confident

RE: Watchguard appliances

2010-03-12 Thread Jay Dale
ubject: Re: Watchguard appliances oh, yeah, rolling the upgrades off the firewalls was never suggested by their support team. they were always 100% sure that wasn't the problem, even after the 2nd or 3rd time. Like we were the only people who ever had that problem. On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 12:

RE: Watchguard appliances

2010-03-12 Thread paul d
+1 for Palo Alto My Pix515e's are going off support so I'm looking at different companies. I'll consider the ASA but I've heard some good tings about Palo's f/w. I talked with a tech at PA last week and it's sounds promising. Subject: RE: Watchguard appliances D

Re: Watchguard appliances

2010-03-12 Thread Kurt Buff
I used old WG Firebox III units for years - only had one issue, with their SMTP proxy. Switched to a packet filter and had no problems. It is, of course, completely irrelevant that my brother works for them as a trainer, because when the time came, we switched to Sidewinders (which were then unfor

RE: Watchguard appliances

2010-03-12 Thread Mike French
Proxied firewalls. Application awareness is a much better idea and "True" SSL decryption all the better.. From: Jeff Brown [mailto:2jbr...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 12:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Watchguard appliance

Re: Watchguard appliances

2010-03-12 Thread Jeff Brown
oh, yeah, rolling the upgrades off the firewalls was never suggested by their support team. they were always 100% sure that wasn't the problem, even after the 2nd or 3rd time. Like we were the only people who ever had that problem. On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Jeff Brown <2jbr...@gmail.com>

Re: Watchguard appliances

2010-03-12 Thread Jeff Brown
6+ years since we went through our "mess" with Watchguard, I'm still not completely over it, so I'll be happy to share. We had 5 units, 2 mid to large size firewalls and 3 SOHO devices. We never had any issues with the larger boxes, but every time we applied any kind of upgrade(CALS or VPN licens

Watchguard appliances

2010-03-12 Thread Phillip Partipilo
Curious to hear of experiences with their appliances and support, as well as comparisons with competing products. I am ready to throw this thing off the roof, along with Pavel Checkov from the support department. Phillip Partipilo Parametric Solutions Inc. Jupiter, Florida (561) 747-6107 TH