Re: Recommend New Hardware

From: Mark S (marks_at_nothere.com)
Date: 02/14/05 

Date: 13 Feb 2005 21:31:14 -0600

Umm well unlimited IPSEC passthru is pretty common, as is ISP failover, port
VPN enforcement, they're all boring firewall features. IDS? Betcha its some
crap DoS stuff - not real IDP.

PC-Card bit is nice.

"Arthur Hagen" <art@broomstick.com> wrote in message
news:cuchgt$u7f$1@cauldron.broomstick.com...
> As for features, it goes both ways. Nexland patented a system for
unlimited
> IPsec pass-through, which you can't find on other devices than
> Nexland/Symantec. Then there's a backup line that connects automatically
> over modem or ISDN if your ISP's line goes down. Quite useful. Or the
> ability to plug in a PC card and get instant secure wireless. Or the
> ability to enforce VPN on a port by port basis. Most if not all of the
> other features listed are also provided by the SGS device. I'm sure
there's
> things the Sonicwall does better -- URL filtering, for example, is very
> rudimentary on the SGS. Other things, I'm sure it doesn't do better.
>
> No, it's far from perfect, but for the money, I'd go with a SGS320 (or
> better yet, an SGS360, and get load balancing/failover between two WAN
> lines).
>
> --
> *Art
>

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