Sidewinder, Vyatta and pfsense come to mind.

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 09:22, Richard Stovall <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
>
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