On Friday 23 November 2001 08:50 am, Thomas Ullrich wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> our IT provider offered us a FW solution to separate three industrial
> production subnetworks from an
> LAN used by the office personal. There is the necessity to have some
> data exchange between a couple of
> NT machines on the different networks. The offer was a CISCO PIX 515-UR.
> They want to have almost 15.000 US$
> plus about 11 persondays every year for maintaining the FW. Sounds quite
> high to me. What are your experiences?
>
> Thanks
> Thomas
you can definitely do it for a lot less, you can put in a pc with free
software (linux, *bsd, etc) and get everything you need, and the pc doesn't
need to be beefy, a pentium 266 would prolly more than meet your needs
