My top three dedicated firewall devices; 1) Sidewinder - not officially or publicly cracked. 2) Nokia Checkpoint FW-1 Firewall - Rock on active/active (ip clustering) state and fail over. 3) Cisco PIX - cost of ownership and they make a PIX blade for the 6500. Not too bad of a firewall as well.
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