Well according to my experience, if you want quality and something easy
to use with a nice Graphical User Interface have a look @ netssreen
firewalls (http://www.netscreen.com) if u want to complicate your life
go to cisco they 100% command line interface and very expensive, + it is
targeted by the attackers and it routes, as for the watchguard firewall
it have a huge history in vulnerability and his ACL needs to restart the
firewall every time you change it or add something to it, as for the
sonic wall well if u want to use VPN then 4get about it, it have a bug
discovered in the 28 of march 2001 in the IKE key.
If u want my choice go to netscreen, cheap, reliable and not targeted
and the vpn comes built in the 5, 25 series by default
Plz note that m cisco certified and currently doing my ccie in security
and voice over ip
Regards,
,,,
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-----Original Message-----
From: leon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 10:08 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: What firewall?
The leaders in the industry are usually thought of as Cisco Pix
(www.cisco.com) and Checkpoint (www.checkpoint.com) Sonicwall can do
what you ask and has a very pretty gui (www.sonicwall.com)
HTH,
Leon
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 4:42 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
