Re: Choosing a Firewall

From: Leythos (void_at_nowhere.lan)
Date: 08/09/05 

Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 20:57:06 GMT

In article <42f9140a$1_4@newsfeed.slurp.net>,
mbailey@beaumontproducts.com says...
> I'm interested in any recommendations/opinion - good or bad on brands of
> firewalls. We currently have a PIX 506e and seem to be running into some
> hardware limitations when using VPN according to Cisco. They are
> recommending upgrading to the 515. Our ISP is recommending the Watch Guard
> X700

It's hard to recommend a solution without knowing your needs. I've used
both Pix and WatchGuard and find that CISCO is always a PITA when it
comes to working with other vendors for tunnels.

If you need to setup PPTP to the firewall, WG makes it simple to setup
users and then to restrict users to specific addresses (or full open).
If you need branch-office ipsec dedicated tunnels, WG makes that simple
too - you can have an IPSec tunnel setup to most vendors appliances in
about 10 minutes once you've done it at least once. We have cheat-sheets
you can email me for if you get a WG unit.

A retail unit should not cost more than about $1900 for the X700, but
does not come with the web-blocker key for that price. I just ordered
two more x700 for a client, they've been painless so far. 

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