RE: Firewall recommendations?

[jacob () excaliburfilms com (Jacob)]

http://www.netscreen.com/products/firewall_wpaper.html

Right on their website ;-)

At 10:47 AM 3/10/2003 -0800, you wrote:
> While I see people recommend NetScreen, I can not based on my experience
> with their techs, which includes level 2 techs.
>
> While researching options for a firewall for a client, none of the techs at
> NetScreen that I talked to could answer a basic question: Does NetScreen
> firewall do stateful packet inspection? 5 different techs, including a
> senior lead tech, could not answer yes or no. (The fact that it does is not
> the point here, the knowledge by their techs is.)
>
> We have 9 Sonicwalls installed and am very happy with them. (Clients and
> in-house.)
>
> The comment about ISA server in a environment where security is at most, I
> would recommend a primary firewall, such as a Sonicwall, as the first line
> of defense, (with a DMZ behind that in Normal Mode,) then ISA server between
> the DMZ and the Internal LAN.
>
> ISA is an excellent product for integrating with a LAN. However, as someone
> else said, when it comes to security, there is on one end-all product.
>
> John Tolmachoff MCSE, CSSA
> IT Manager, Network Engineer
> RelianceSoft, Inc.
> Fullerton, CA  92835
> www.reliancesoft.com