Highly recommend the Fortigate firewalls as well. Used to love Netscreen, although not as happy with them post Juniper.
Lots of features at a really good price point. * * *ASB* *http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* *Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market… * On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Stringham, Steven <[email protected]>wrote: > Look at Fortinet's Fortigate products. Very nice with filtering, etc. > available. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2011 2:15 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Firewall/Router recommendations > > Good Afternoon, list members. > > I would like to know what are some of your recommendations for a > Router/Firewall. Some info of our current situation: > > We currently use a Linux-based firewall (ClearOS for those curios). It has > served us well over the years. Very recently, it has begun to inexplicably > slow down passed network traffic. Ping times go up to 1000-4000ms, while > load seems to be near zero. Reboot resolve this issue, but the problem can > come back within a few hours. > > I have called the vendor, and I was able to get their tech support (for > $180, no less). The first tier support tech is stumped, and he's going to > get his level 2 tech involved. Here's the kicker: He will be in touch with > me "by the end of the week." My boss and I have decided that we no longer > are interested in something if we can't get support when we need it. > > The network requirements for the firewall/router are simple: a 100mbit > ethernet WAN and a 100mbit ethernet LAN. Standard NAT and port forwarding > required. All other features are _not_ required, but are gravy. > > We need something that is fairly easy to administer. Anything with a decent > web console will likely do. We have about 1000 computers on our network, but > actual concurrent sessions through the firewall will likely be 5,000-10,000. > > I look forward to see what else people are using. > > > --Matt Ross > Ephrata School District > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
