As long as you are not looking for proxing capabilites, I would suggest that you also take a look at NetScreen. We currectly have a bunch of Watchguards and NetScreen deployed and I REALLY like the NetScreen firewalls for guarding any sort of web/application farm. These devices are the fastest things that I have ever seen. The only thing that would make me think twice about using NetScreens in every security implementation we do is the fact that WatchGuard supports application level proxies. These allow for better protection of enterprises. One of our clients is pushing 30-40mb/s through a HA set of NetScreens and we have nothing but success with these devices. The same client is using another pair of NetScreens to run a site-to-site VPN using around 10mb/s of traffic. Again, no problems...
IMHO, Jeremy Stinson Quadrix Solutions, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: Robert D. Hughes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 10:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: What firewall? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Make sure you look at Cyberguard. They support GigE adapters, as well as the RedCreek VPN card. www.cyberguard.com Rob - -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 3:42 PM 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 7.0.4 iQA/AwUBO/Hrqua2P6TrxG1EEQLEDgCeKX0D/wnVMG0TkyxL1VbpLTW8WyUAn1yV 6Eeh0EeRL6+3YbgFJAfkYOe+ =OFvW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
