Some feel as you. If your business runs IT via Consultants and
Outsourcing, then yes, devices with SLA are the ticket. I would
recommend a Cisco PIX. But the outsourcing methodology isn't necessarily
the standard.
It is perfectly acceptable to build firewalls in house, and if one
fails, build a second.
To be perfectly honest, if your organization finds hardware with SLA a
must, Why not install a Cisco Call Manager, or a Nortel?
No Fuss, No muss, and a contract?
Matt
Ansar Mohammed wrote:
But seriously folks....
1. it doesn't matter if you only *need* a 486 with 16MB of RAM. The fact is
that if you are setting this up for anything other than a home network, you
should use hardware that is under warranty and under some form of an sla.
i.e. it should be supportable.
2. there are a lots of linux/bsd based firewall options, pf, ipf, iptables
and there are even more distros and web UIs that dumb down the
configuration. However, the best UI's don't expose all the configuration
options. I had some serious IP fragmenting issues with a Bell DSL connection
that could only be resolved by a very obscure switch in the config file for
PF. Choose ONE solution, bypass the pretty UI, and LEARN to use the bloody
config file.
-----Original Message-----
From: Duane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: November 3, 2007 1:55 AM
To: Toronto Asterisk UG
Subject: Re: [on-asterisk] What firewall devices do you recommend for
Small business
Matthew Mackes wrote:
Depending on the amount of traffic you are planing on passing, I would
bet an older PIII with 128 of RAM, and a 2 GB Harddisk will do very
nicely.
Actually most people wouldn't exceed the capacity of a 486 with 16M of
ram, and a lot of Cisco routers have 486 or 386 or older chips from
memory.
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