Re: Help! Can I do this for under $400?

From: Jack Dimple (jd_at_dimple.com)
Date: 09/10/04 

Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 03:16:18 GMT

Dear Void:

The simple but very legitimate response to your question is the non-
profit organization does not have the computer budget for more. While it
is true that $400 is small change for Corporate 500 or even Corporate
5000 firms, it is not a small investment to little organizations or
mom&pop stores.

It may be there is a big customer gap which no company is willing to fill
for now. There are ultra-low end $50 appliances like Linksys/Netgear and
then there are big irons like your Firebox at over $1500.

I don't know but at the rate of non-responses to my inquiry, I suspect
that you are maybe right that $400 will not be enough to get the
organization what it needs. And that's a shame.

JD

void <void@nowhere.org> wrote in
news:MPG.1baab912c111170f989694@news-server.columbus.rr.com:

> In article <Xns955FBDC069B6Ajddimplecom@199.45.49.11>, jd@dimple.com
> says...

>
> If your servers are that important, and with your requirements, WHY
> are you limiting your network security to $400?
>
> Get a firewall appliance, like a WatchGuard Firebox 700, and you can
> do everything you want and then a LOT more. A 700 will cost you about
> $1,700, but when you consider what you are asking you can't do better.
>
> If you really want cheap, then you need to go with a PC running a BSD
> solution and IPTables and a couple add-ons for it.
>
> There is no cheap, $400, product that will do what you want, in the
> manner you want, and provide you with real security, at least nothing
> that I would install and then claim to have installed.
>

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