I Need a firewall recommendation.

From: User (1_at_2.3)
Date: 02/17/05 

Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 19:31:49 GMT

I Need a firewall recommendation.

I am setting up two 2003 standard edition web servers.
I am thinking I would be better off with a hardware firewall between
these servers and the internet.

The only services they will need to run are:
smtp 21
pop 110
htp 80
https 443
ftp 21
And remote desktop 3389 (I think)

Since there are two servers the firewall must have some way to route
incoming requests to the proper server. For example lets say server's
1 domain name was domainTest1.com and server's 2 domain name was
domainTest2.com. Requests for port 80 on the domain domainTest1.com
would be routed to the IP of server 1, and requests for port 80 on the
domain domainTest2.com would be routed to the IP of server2. The same
thing is required for the other services/ports.

1) Do I need a hardware firewall if I am running 2003 standard
edition?
All unneeded services will be turned off including windows file
sharing.

2) What hardware firewall you anyone recommend?
I was looking at the cisco 501 and 506e, but the traffic on these
servers is small, counted
in the hundreds of hits a day, not thousands.

Thanks.

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