+1 for fortinet. Have 2 enterprise class units and 3 sbs units. love them. Used to be fan of SonicWall.
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Sam Cayze <[email protected]> wrote: > Same here. Awful experience with SonicWall. > > Loving my Fortinet though. Great product, great interface, great > support. > > Sam > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 11:40 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: New firewall recommendations > > > "3) I seem to remember some pretty fervent anti-SonicWall comments here > lately, mostly due to offshoring of tech support. Am I remembering that > correctly? Is it really so bad as to knock SonicWall off the list of > contenders? " > > Support was so hideous for me on a TZ series, around 2005 I think, that > I have refused to deal with them ever since, and do not recommend them > to any > clients I come across. They may have changed and improved since then, > but > I haven't bothered to check back with them due to the negative > experiences I had then. > > There are others with opposing opinions > > Erik Goldoff > IT Consultant > Systems, Networks, & Security > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Stovall [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 12:22 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: New firewall recommendations > > Hola fellow admin peoples, > > I'm looking to replace our end of life Pix 515e firewalls. We have two, > one for each inbound ISP. My SmartFilter subscription is also about to > expire and I'm thinking I might like to move to a unified security > solution. So far, the only candidate I've found is the Sonciwall NSA > series, specifically the NSA240 for our size network. > It looks like it can do: > > 1) WAN failover (1 firewall, multiple ISPs) > 2) Traditional packet inspection / NAT, etc. > 3) Layer 7 application inspection > 4) Content filtering (to replace the SmartFilter) > 5) A host of other buzzword goodies > > My questions are: > > 1) Are there any competing products that I should be loooking at? I > can't seem to figure out if the Cisco ASA5500 series is comparable on > all features. > 2) Anyone have firsthand experience with the fully tricked out NSA 240 > with the Gateway Security Suite of addons? Any comments you can share? > 3) I seem to remember some pretty fervent anti-SonicWall comments here > lately, mostly due to offshoring of tech support. Am I remembering that > correctly? Is it really so bad as to knock SonicWall off the list of > contenders? > > Thanks one and all for any suggestions/ideas/comments, > > RS > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
