Re: Hardware Firewall recommendations

[Tremaine Lea <tremaine () gmail com>]

Any decent firewall/router should be capable of what you are  
requiring, from entry level cisco routers to Checkpoint to Juniper to  
Sonicwall to... the list is pretty long ;)

If the only requirement is being able to handle/configure two wan  
links and basic ACL's, you have a lot of options and can choose any  
relatively mainstream firewall and base your decision primarily on cost.

If there are other needs such as IDS/IPS, VPN support, QoS, vlan's  
etc, that will narrow the field a little bit.

Cheers,

---
Tremaine Lea
Network Security Consultant
Intrepid ACL
"Paranoia for hire"



On 30-Nov-07, at 4:22 AM, Chris [HORIZONsolutions] wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm investigating the purchase of a hardware firewall.  I'm hoping  
> people here could point me in the right direction, if not give  
> recommendations.
>
> I've got two separate connections, one to a individual server and  
> one to a small LAN of several servers. The need for the two separate  
> incoming pipes is because we're billed individually for the  
> bandwidth usage.  I would rather buy one box that can handle both of  
> these connections instead of two boxes, mainly to ease the  
> administration but this isn't essential.
> This should make sense, thanks,
>
> Chris -.