I have worked with Monowall in corporate situations for many years. Monowall is solid and when you find people that do not want you to use Monowall it is usually due to a discomfort factor on there own part.
I am finding recently that I am having to remove Monowalls to become SAS70 compliant. SAS70 is similar to Sarbanes Oxley, but SAS70 is for privately held companies. Why do I have to change? The law firm hired for the SAS70 review does not have the confidence in Open Source vs Off the shelf firewall that is not corporate backed. I would love to help you out, but I have a full plate. If you want another opinion. I would recommend Utiliware.com . Give them a call and talk to Bill Dale. Uliliware is very comfortable with open source and they follow the mind set of build it right and let it run, not hire a babysitter. Also, I have had Utiliware work on Sonicwalls and Cisco's. I even worked with one of there engineers to virtualize a Monowall instance when I was first learning about VMware ESX 3.5 a few years ago. I do not make anything from this referral, I would just hate to see you get bad advice. Aaron Freeman ________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of green bean [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, December 24, 2009 1:47 AM To: SCFN Group Cc: Richard Thompson Subject: [SCFN] SonicWall vs. m0n0 or pfSense Does anyone have experience with SonicWall? Why Is it that much better than m0n0wall or pfSense? Worth the price? We hired an IT consultant who recommended sonicwall, I suggested m0n0 or pfSense but he didnt like that idea. Our goal is to prioritize our internet bandwidth so that our company's VIPs get better internet speed. But m0n0 can do that, either by connecting them to a different ethernet card in the m0n0 computer and giving that nic card a bigger pipe, or by putting the VIPs on a virtual LAN [VLAN] with a bigger pipe. So what would be the great advantages of sonicwall compared to m0n0 to make it worth the price? BTW, our IT consultant also recommended we hire an employee of HIS company on site FULL TIME to manage our 42-computer network. LOL!
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