I would have to concur with Jean. With one addition....the PIX processes traffic at very close to wire speeds, thereby making is good for inter-departmental firewalls.....while the Checkpoint Firewall is software/hardware based making it very extensible and very easily managed.
Joe H. Clifton, II Security Team Lead Office Depot 2200 Old Germantown Rd Delray Beach, FL 33445 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Jean R. Sigue [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 4:52 PM To: Sickchef Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: What firewall? I used the Cisco Pix firewall and Checkpoint. There are both very secure devices. Checkpoint is Software or Hardware and easier to use because you can install it on a Wintel machine. Pix is faster but more difficult to configure. Jean R. Sigue, OM Technology Inc. 140 Broadway 26th Fl New York NY 10004 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone:646-4282923 Cellphone: +1-917-257 9742 |--------+------------------------> | | "Sickchef" | | | <sickchef@hawa| | | ii.rr.com> | | | | | | 11/13/2001 | | | 01:02 PM | | | | |--------+------------------------> >-----------------------------------------------------------------------| | | | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | cc: (bcc: Jean R. Sigue/OMT/OMGROUP) | | Subject: RE: What firewall? | >-----------------------------------------------------------------------| Here some good info on the 2500 and some comparisions here http://www.sbsecurity.com/support/tech_assistance.html http://www.sbsecurity.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=S &Product_Code=FW-WG-2500&Category_Code=FW-WG sickchef -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 11:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: What firewall? Hi! I\'m about to buy a firewall, and I wonder if you people could give me some advices that could help me decide which one that fits me best. See, I\'m quite new with this. So, this firewall should protect a quite big serverpark. It has to deal with a lot of information. It might be necessary to use two devices. If it is, the information will be divided upon these two with a load balancer. No special needs for VPN. I\'ve been thinking about using Watchguard Firewall 2500 or 4500. I know that 4500 handles VPN though. Is this a good choice? Is there sites on the net where products are compared and where you could see the good and the bad of each one? Thanks / Martin Andersson
