Which Firewall appliance?

First of all sorry for my english.
(I am italian)

I am a consultant for network system specially for Microsoft solution.
Often I have to choose a firewall for my customer, but actually i did'nt
find a good product and every time a purchase a different product.
My customer usually are company with 50-100 PC and some of these have one or
two branch Office

I am searching a firewall on appliance (non on Personal Computer like
Smoothwall) that have a perimetral solution (LAN, DMZ, WAN) and VPN option
included.

Not important option included
-Antispam
-Mailing

Important option
-Good logging for tracking
-Easy interface to configure.
-http interface for customization
-not expensive

Thanks in advance for your help

djx

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Leythos wrote:

> >
> > I am a consultant for network system specially for Microsoft solution.
> > Often I have to choose a firewall for my customer, but actually i did'nt
> > find a good product and every time a purchase a different product.
> > My customer usually are company with 50-100 PC and some of these have one or
> > two branch Office
> >
> > I am searching a firewall on appliance (non on Personal Computer like
> > Smoothwall) that have a perimetral solution (LAN, DMZ, WAN) and VPN option
> > included.

Look at the NOKIA firewall/switch VPN solution which uses FW1. The
underlying OS is more UNIX-like but that shouldn't be a problem, the
underlying OS for Macs is UNIX kernel these days.

Rhino

Re: Which Firewall appliance?

djx wrote:

> First of all sorry for my english.
> (I am italian)
>
> I am a consultant for network system specially for Microsoft solution.

You are *not* a consultant, you only claim to be one. A consultant, who
deserves that name, would have tested the devices before himself. However,
if you need a consultant to become one yourself, well, feel free to hire
one.

> Often I have to choose a firewall for my customer, but actually i did'nt
> find a good product and every time a purchase a different product.

You should set your focus on 1-2 vendors. To do that you have to test
various boxes and make up your mind yourself based on the experience *you*
*yourself* have gained during *your* tests. Because of *your* experience
and knowledge you call yourself 'a consultant'.

I'm afraid you have to do your homework yourself in order to become a real
consultant and write big bills.

Wolfgang

Re: Which Firewall appliance?

"Wolfgang Kueter" wrote in message
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> You are *not* a consultant, you only claim to be one.

My be you have right.


In anycase I have no mutch money to test all the product.
I tested some of them like Nokia/FW1 but in this case it was to mutch
expensive for a Small/Medium company (it is my opinion) so i wanted to
conectrate my test on small appliance.
For this reason i wrote the post on this NG.

You are a real consultant?

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Some opinion regarding this appliance?

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Re: Which Firewall appliance?

djx wrote:
> "Wolfgang Kueter" wrote in message
> news:egb6kk$jqm$1@news.shlink.de...
>
> > You are *not* a consultant, you only claim to be one.
>
> My be you have right.

>
> You are a real consultant?

Wolfgang is correct, although a little harsh to post it like that
publically IMNSHO. :-)
Somebody great said, "praise in public and criticize in private", but
at any rate take
a look at what the US IRS (infernal revenue service) considers a
consultant. I'm
sure you can find it on The Net. I'm not trying to be US-centric...
just clear.

In their list of 20 questions to determine consultant status they won't
allow you to write off expenses unless for example you drive to
multiple clients at multiple locations (different
companies), open bank accounts in the name of your corporation, create
fictitious name, etc.(these last two don't really matter to us) For
example in my case I worked for Sun Micro, cisco, SGI, Bay Networks,
etc in the Silicon Valley, and also worked with at least a half dozen
different firewalls at a dozen different companies, in different
Industries.

The best way to do this with your limited budget is to get a series of
employers to hire you to work on their equipment at various locations.
It is not bad for your resume to jump all over the place in this manner
IF you are working as a 1099 or corp-to-corp worker. Once you do begin
to build up your epxerience then start *answering* questions in these
groups (I have been hired on just this basis) and if you can get
speaking engagements to talk about what your have learned your rates
will start to go up. Another route is to come out with papers, or a
product everyone uses like LINUX, SSH, Kerberos, etc. We all started
out small... learn UNIX or LINUX or OpenBSD... get away from MS
windoze sometimes, I say this because learning to click buttons on
gagets, is not the same as paying your dues pouring over OS source code
for answers, sniffing packets, etc. Take a wide variety of classes in
your spare time, forever, always be learning.

Cheers, Rhino

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"rhino007_us@yahoo.com" wrote:
>
> djx wrote:
> > "Wolfgang Kueter" wrote in message
> > news:egb6kk$jqm$1@news.shlink.de...
> >
> > > You are *not* a consultant, you only claim to be one.
> >
> > My be you have right.
>
> >
> > You are a real consultant?
>
> Wolfgang is correct, although a little harsh to post it like that
> publically IMNSHO. :-)
>
>

It the Germans...

Great optics. No manners.

Notan

Re: Which Firewall appliance?

Notan wrote:
> It the Germans...
>
> Great optics. No manners.

It's always impressive to see someone talk about manners and insult an
entire nation within the same sentence ...

f'up2p

cu
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their architecture they should go back and re-architect their solution."
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Re: Which Firewall appliance?

djx wrote:

> In anycase I have no mutch money to test all the product.

A lot of vendors and/or distributors offer devices for testing purposes for
free. You just have to ask them. You mentioned Checkpoint FW-1 and even for
that product you can get a license key that allows you to examine the
product for a reasonable time.

Wolfgang

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djx wrote:


Check out these:
http://www.sofaware.com/general.aspx?boneId=145&DTId=142&obj Id=207
http://www.fortinet.com/doc/FGT50_100DS.pdf

Lars

Re: Which Firewall appliance?

rhino007_us@yahoo.com wrote:
> the
> underlying OS for Macs is UNIX kernel these days.



| Note that Mac OS X uses the term kernel somewhat differently than you
| might expect.

SCNR,
VB.
--
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Re: Which Firewall appliance?

You should look at GajShield, http://www.gajshield.com. They have all
the features you want and yet are quite affordable. I like the
interface as it gives a single window to configure the security
policies, bandwidth management, virus scanning, load balancing.

Sameer Lobo

djx wrote:
> First of all sorry for my english.
> (I am italian)
>
> I am a consultant for network system specially for Microsoft solution.
> Often I have to choose a firewall for my customer, but actually i did'nt
> find a good product and every time a purchase a different product.
> My customer usually are company with 50-100 PC and some of these have one or
> two branch Office
>
> I am searching a firewall on appliance (non on Personal Computer like
> Smoothwall) that have a perimetral solution (LAN, DMZ, WAN) and VPN option
> included.
>
> Not important option included
> -Antispam
> -Mailing
>
> Important option
> -Good logging for tracking
> -Easy interface to configure.
> -http interface for customization
> -not expensive
>
> Thanks in advance for your help
>
> djx