Hi Jen,
I evaluated the Lucent Managed Firewall recently and it has all of the
features you mentioned. I was definitely impressed by it, but am still in
the process of evaluating other solutions.
It has a centralized management station that gives you the ability to apply
a single policy to multiple firewalls and lets you assign various access
controls over the firewalls to different administrators. Remote
administration and upgrades were very easy too.
I was also concerned with Tunnels and inbound NAT. I wanted to avoid
routing the home IP addresses and any conflicts if a user connected to a
different firewall on our network, etc. Inbound NAT worked with NT
services by having the firewall act as a DHCP server for the tunnel client
providing them with a DNS server and WINS server address. This worked very
well. I also tested other services, but this is the only one that had the
potential to cause an issue in my case.
It has a lot of great features and operates on layer 2, so you don't see it
on the line. I am looking at other solutions because this does not have
much market share, but seems to be a very good firewall. I think it is
worth looking at.
-Kathleen
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