Good Morning,
Many vendors sell levels of firewall. Both Cisco and Sonicwall have
enterprise platforms; they also have soho units. For 5 users I tend to go
with the Sonicwall tele2/3 units or a PIX 501. With antivirus subscriptions
and enhanced support warranty, these are in the $800 range. With out the
add-ons both come in at close to $400. I tend to stay from the dsl routers
as the only defenses they offer are simple NAT.
My $.02
Earl Ogden
Network Specialist
Regional Training Institute
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-----Original Message-----
From: Derrenbacker, L. Jonathan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 7:40 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Sizing a Firewall for a client
How do you go about sizing a firewall for a given client?
Right now I have a client that's only 5 users, and they $1,000 for a
firewall would be pushing it.
The only fancy thing they need is the ability to let exchange and terminal
server ports to be mapped to the internal IP addresses.
Would something like a cablemodem/dsl router be sufficient in a case like
this?
If it depends, what does it depend on?
Thanks in advance.
