Hello Chris,

Thanks for your interesting hints. The Cisco solution could be the right one,
but what's with the administration interface ? I know Cisco's classical command
line interface and I don't like it at all. I know there is a GUI called
ConfigMaker, that includes a Security Wizard to set up the IOS Firewall.

Has anyone experience with this GUI ? Does it mean fun or punishment to use it
? Is it sufficient to set up the IOS firewall or have I to use the command line
interface also ? The Cisco online documentation says they use syslog to track
all transactions. So have I to read syslog files to know what's going on ?! Are
there any flaws or bugs one should know about ?

Kind regards
Bernd

Chris wrote:

> At 4:52 PM +0100 2/25/99, Bernhard Petri wrote:
> >We use Checkpoint FireWall-1 as our "general purpose" firewall.  I want
> >additional protection against external attacks, as for example
> >denial-of-service. So I need to install an "frontend firewall" before
> >FireWall-1. I think that a dynamic filter ist the right solution, but I
> >don't know which product to use. This product shall be safe, stable and
> >relatively cheap compared to FireWall-1. It shall support two Ethernet
> >interfaces and one WAN interface.
>
> Bernd
>
> You might want to look at a  Cisco 2611, which possess, in addition to
> traditional packet filtering capacity, an enhanced IOS Firewall software
> feature set (available only recently and only in the lower end Cisco
> routers) which adds statefull packet filtering capabilities.
>
> To give you an idea of cost and part, I recently got a quote from the lady
> below, which is about 25% off list. Since I was going to use both the WAN
> ports, 3 CSU/DSU were being considered, one for backup. This particular
> unit has a 10baseT interface, which supports both SNMP and you can telnet
> to it a monitor status and reconfigure over the net (password protected).
>
> Cisco 2611 WAN Router
> CISCO2611       1  Cisco 2611 Dual Ethernet Router, IP Only IOS  $ 2,495.00
> $ 1,871.25
> S26CHL-12.0.2T  1  2600 IOS IP Firewall Plus IPSEC56             $ 2,400.00
> $ 1,800.00
> WIC-2T          1  2-Port WAN Interface Card                     $   700.00
> $   525.00
> CAB-SS-V35MT    1  V35 Cable, DTE Male to Smart Serial, 10 ft    $   100.00
> $    75.00
> TY3250-01-35    3  Sync Research/Tylink 3250 T1 CSU/DSU V35      $ 1,375.00
> $ 2,681.25
> CON-SNT-2611    1  SmartNet 8x5xNBD, 1 year                      $   392.00
> $   352.80
>
>         TOTAL$ 7,305.30
>
> Katie Ives, Sr. Account Manager
> NetLink Technologies, Inc.
> 3333 S. Wadsworth Blvd, Ste.  228-D
> Lakewood, CO 80227
> (800) 646-6415
>
> Hope this helps ... chris
>
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