Many thanks to everyone who has responded to my query.
However, judging by some of the replies I have received, I believe
I was rather vague in my original post (below).
As I said we are running Solaris on a Sun Sparc, but we do not intend
to place the firewall on this machine as I may have led you to believe.
This machine will be upgraded to the latest version of Solaris at some stage.
The machine is situated in a webfarm which has a 10 baseT ethernet 45-65Mb
connection (I think). We are hoping to add an additional dedicated box.
This machine will most likely run Linux, although it does not have to.
However, we are not adverse to a hardware solution of some sort ie. router.
We will be allowing web access obviously and restricted telnet access by IP
among others.
As you have no doubt gathered I am no firewall expert and I will be working
with others in setting this up.
Thanks again,
Paul
>Hello all,
>I've been lurking here for some time but now I have a question
>perhaps someone here could help me with. I apologise if this
>has been discussed already.
>I have a web server which is running Solaris 2.5.1 on a Sun Sparc,
>and I am hoping to purchase a firewall for it.
>I have done some research into this and turned up a huge amount of
>information but I would like to get the opinion of the many security
>professionals who are on this list on what you feel would be the top
>three or four firewall products to consider. Some pointers to some
>of the better firewall reviews on the net, whether I should consider
>a hardware or software solution, cost. All opinions on these would be
>greatly appreciated.
>Thank you for your time,
>Regards,
>Paul Brady
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