JRA,
If you have questions contact me off list. I would shoot for a little
higher device to support that bandwidth if you are going to be enabling
Services at all. Also if you use services, make sure they are enabled only on
1 zone as to not double scan traffic. Also I would skip the DPI-SSL services
for now, as they are extremely throughput intensive. The company I work for
manages a few hundred Sonicwalls, some of them in a pretty complex setup.
SonicWall netflow is a little unique, they have a GUI feature called APPFlow
which makes it pretty easy to trim down to watch exactly what you need (once
you get the hang of it). Some of the additional free features make the
SonicWall very nice. The SSLVPN portal is very handy for remote
troubleshooting. You can bind it to a VLAN interface with private addresses
for management purposes as well as remote access.
Careful though, they can either be a beast, or a joy to manage depending on how
you set it up.
If you want to do entirely CLI management on the SonicWall, be prepared for a
headache. Everything is case sensitive, and not the cleanest. If you build
quick templates in your favorite text editor, it can be very simple to manage
this way.
SonicWall is pushing 5.8.1.4 firmwares to all of the partners as far as I know
(maybe to everyone) if you call in with an issue. Check the caveats though, we
have a few conflicts related to VPN stuff as well as dynamic routing a few
places.
Blake
-----Original Message-----
From: Jay Mitchell [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 3:59 AM
To: Jay Ashworth
Cc: NANOG
Subject: Re: Sonicwall 3500/netflow
According to the spec sheet it does, haven't had the opportunity to play with
one to comment any further though.
http://www.sonicwall.com/us/products/NSA_3500.html#tab=specifications
--jay
On 14/02/2012, at 2:21 PM, Jay Ashworth <[email protected]> wrote:
> This will be my first time in Sonicwall territory. I'm assuming this
> thing will (effectively) *be* my edge router; does it support netflow,
> as has been being discussed in the recent thread?
>
> I'm likely going to have 100M from L3, with FiOS/150 and Roadrunner/50
> for backup/load bal; I don't think this will be a BGP application.
> :-)
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
> --
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