Mr O wrote:
Anybody got recommendations, experience, comments, etc, on
hardware firewalls? I'm sure they're all simple to deal with
with the web interfaces and that's what the client needs.
I have a customer I work with that was in the market for a good firewall
appliance, but was on a tight budget. He needed a solid, reliable
firewall, VPN support, and the ability to grow with his business.
Looking at the consumer level boxes we found that they either didn't
have the features we wanted, the flexibility we needed, or had terrible
support (or all three).
I then moved up the food chain and looked at some of the bigger players
options including the Cisco Pix 500, the Sonicall SOHO3, Check Point's
[EMAIL PROTECTED], Netgear's Prosafe, Symantec's enterprise 100, Cyberguard
SG570, and the Watchguard Firebox. I found that most of these boxes were
way too expensive, had ridiculous user limits, had mediocre to terrible
support, or did not have the features I was looking for. I then ran into
a company called Fortinet.
The company is was started buy one of the origonal founders of NetScreen
in 2000 and seemed to have a good feature mix. I found their products to
be much cheaper (1/2 to 2/3 the cost of the Pix 500 and their VPN
clients are 1/4 the price of most others at ~$18 which includes VPN,
Firewall,and A/V), to have a good feature list (VPN, AntiVirus, Content
filtering, a good web interface, IPS, and decent Antispam, no max number
of users, a DMZ, 2 WAN interfaces with load balancing ), and to top that
off they had great support. I have now had their Forigate 60 unit in
place for just over 1 year and I have had only one minor problem related
to the unit(which if I had read the release notes on the update,
wouldn't have been a problem).
Hope that helps.
Garl
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