Firewall opinions wanted please - clarification
Brandon Shiers
brandons at wyoming.com
Wed Mar 17 00:18:38 UTC 2004
Sonicwall makes a great product that can run in STANDARD (Proxy) mode.
Their prices are pretty good as well, espicially if you buy them
through a reseller. We deploy many of these firewalls every year and
they are great!
Thanks,
Brandon
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 15:07:26 -0800 (PST)
Nicole <nmh at daemontech.com> wrote:
>
>
> As much as I hate to follow up my own post, I suppose I was a bit
> too vauge
> for my own good =]
>
> We do not run any cisco gear and we are in a Class A data facility.
>
> By proxy I did not mean to imply NAT. I cannot remember the proper
> term but
> what I mean is full packet handeling as opposed to packet
> inspection.
>
> Security is important but the budget limit is only up to about 3K.
> I have been
> trying to get the client a firewall for some time and am just now
> getting the
> go ahead.
>
>
>
> Sorry for any vaugeness but I usually like to not say to much as to
> sway
> opinions one way or another and to learn more as any knowlege I have
> may be
> wrong or out of date.
>
>
>
> Nicole
>
>
>
> On 16-Mar-04 Unnamed Administration sources reported Nicole said :
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi
> > I am looking for a good but reasonably priced firewall for a 40 or
> >so server
> > site. Some people swear by Pix, others swear at it a lot. Also I
> >have heard
> > good things about Netscreen. Or any others you would recommend for
> >protecting
> > servers on a busy network. Don't really need anything with VPN just
> >the
> > standard http, ftp, ssh, https, type traffic up to 100mb
> >throughput.
> > From what I have heard a proxy firewall would be best?
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks in advance!!
> >
> >
> > Nicole
> >
> >
>
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>
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