Re: [fw-wiz] PIX vs Checkpoint vs Sonicwall vs Netscreen - comments?

From: Carson Gaspar (carson@taltos.org)
Date: 07/27/02 

From: Carson Gaspar <carson@taltos.org>
To: firewall-wizards@honor.icsalabs.com
Date: Sat Jul 27 12:13:19 2002

--On Friday, July 26, 2002 4:57 PM -0700 "Erik M. Bataller"
<uhguhg@yahoo.com> wrote:

> We are currently evaluating several remote firewall
> devices for broadband usage:
>
> SonicWall TZ
> PIX 501
> Intrusions PDS 1150
> Netscreen

Personally, I don't like the PIX. It has a slew of issues, and Cisco isn't
doing a very good job of supporting the platform.

I have no experience with SonicWall or Intrusions PDS.

Netscreen is a great firewall. An important feature for you is that is
supports "phone home" configuration, so you can centrally manage (configs
and firmware) them even if they use DHCP. Their little boxes also support
real routing protocols, and you can get one with a serial port for dial
backup. The 5XP/5XT only have 2 security zones. The 25 has 4. 

-- 
Carson

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