Very standard pricing -----Original Message----- From: dewt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 23, 2001 6:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Security-basics Subject: Re: Firewall Costs
On Friday 23 November 2001 08:50 am, Thomas Ullrich wrote: > Hello everybody, > our IT provider offered us a FW solution to separate three industrial > production subnetworks from an > LAN used by the office personal. There is the necessity to have some > data exchange between a couple of > NT machines on the different networks. The offer was a CISCO PIX 515-UR. > They want to have almost 15.000 US$ > plus about 11 persondays every year for maintaining the FW. Sounds quite > high to me. What are your experiences? > > Thanks > Thomas you can definitely do it for a lot less, you can put in a pc with free software (linux, *bsd, etc) and get everything you need, and the pc doesn't need to be beefy, a pentium 266 would prolly more than meet your needs
