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We are using SonicWall Pro4060, firewall in our organization, National
Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad. We have been using SonicWall
for the last five years (Pro4060 is new got recently). You can try
IPCOP or SmoothWall, free downloads, these are pretty good also.<br>
<br>
Sivaraman.<br>
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Ajay Sharma wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid4372F58F.4050609@revsharecorp.com" type="cite">Hey,
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The company I work for is in the market for a new firewall. Right now
we're hosting all of our own stuff (on CentOS servers) behind an old
checkpoint firewall.
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I think Checkpoint is overkill for our needs and very expensive, plus I
don't like the "per-user" charges of some commercial solutions. What
do you guys suggest that we upgrade to? Here are some of the features
that I would like:
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1) decent gui, either web based or a local client
<br>
<br>
2) usage graphs based on protocol. So if our tiny T1 is saturated, I
want to be able to find out what's eating up the bandwidth
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3) VPN-friendly for a couple of road-warriors. There won't be any
remote offices so no server-to-server setups, just remote clients.
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4) we have a DMZ and about 30 machines on the local network. Everyone
has a "normal" IP address, meaning that no one is behind NAT. So it
needs to handle this (which is pretty basic stuff)
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5) high-availablity. So if I buy two machines, one can successfully
die and the other take over.
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6) no per-user charges. If the company hires a dozen people next year,
we shouldn't have to "upgrade" our license.
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<br>
Right now we're looking at some open-source stuff like pfsense,
m0n0wall, etc... But I'm totally open to an affordable commercial
firewall appliance.
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Thanks for you help.
<br>
<br>
--Ajay
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National Geophysical Research Institute,<br>
Uppal Road, Hyderabad - 500 007. INDIA.<br>
Telephone: 91-40-23434644 (Office), 91-40-23434828 (Home)<br>
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