I will comment concerning the original request. I used to recommend Sonicwalls and they normally functioned fine for general firewalling in small shops. At that time there were no other appliances for that market, at least that I knew of. My first issue with them was that when we were going to implement a VPN for a customer, I noticed a warning in their documentation stating that performance would be affected when we activated that feature. This really irritated me as the marketing outside the box hyped up the VPN capabilities while inside it warned you about the device not working well if you use it with a VPN. We postponed this activity as we did not want a performance hit.
Eventually I found out about Netscreens and became aware of their use of Application Specific Integrated Circuits to accomplish the more intensive functions (VPN, Quality of Service, firewall). To my relief, my VPNs functioned as I implemented for remote management of customer LANS. I have recommended them to customers that have been very happy also, After a quick introduction, they usually can set up inter office VPNs in 10 minutes. As far as Sonicwalls, since my bad experience they have upgraded their chips and memory. They also just recently announced that they will use ASICs (along with Watchguard who acquired Rapidstream). I also recommended Netscreens because they have a scalable line of products. This helped with training and administration as before I had to use Sonicwalls for low end applications and PIXes for higher end (did not trust Sonicwalls for these apps). This made life more difficult for customers. There are other features I could mention but the above two points are the main ones. Hope this helps, Joe -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 5:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Why netscreen instead of say sonicwall On 5 Mar 2002, at 9:35, Hudson Delbert J Contr 61 CS/SCBN wrote: > agreed... > > -----Original Message----- This is, I think, a new low in signal-to-noise, even for this list: 33K of quoted material to add a single word and nearly NO information at all.... DG _______________________________________________ Firewalls mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnac.net/mailman/listinfo/firewalls _______________________________________________ Firewalls mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnac.net/mailman/listinfo/firewalls
