Re: Anyone have any informed opinions on the watchguardproduct line?

[Chris Myers <clmmacunix () charter net>]

Sorry, I think i sent this without completing the thought. Go for it  
with a small business. It is easy administration. The Core series VPN  
is much easier to impliment. The SOHO Edge Series VPN is a little  
obscure, but anyone who cannot afford MSS ( Manage Security Services)  
or a dedicated Security Person, the box works very well.

Hope this helps:)

On Jan 1, 2008, at 11:20 AM, Jim Seymour wrote:

> "Paul D. Robertson" <paul () compuwar net> wrote:
> >
> [snip]
> > Personally, I'm finding the Windows-only GUI more and more of a  
> > problem.
>
> I've never liked GUI-only administration.  IME, some operations are
> well-suited to the GUI, some better-suited to a command-line and
> scripting.
>
> > Suddenly, if I want to make rule changes, I've got to boot up  
> > Parallels
> > and XP- normally that takes getting out an external drive and   
> > closing
> > other apps I'm working on to free up enough memory on my MacBook.
>
> I don't even routinely use an i[3456]86-based system.  My home machine
> is a Sparc Solaris box.  At work I'm on a Sparc Solaris box.  If they
> weren't Sparc Solaris boxen, they'd be '86-based 'nix systems of one
> flavour or another.
>
> I have a work-provided '86-based laptop that dual-boots Ubuntu Linux
> and WinXP.  The only time I run WinXP is in testing-out new/upgrade
> app deployments for the desktops, or trouble-shooting an issue for an
> end-user.  MS-Win is only used for *one* network administrative
> purpose: A "toy" RAS we have that has only a MS-Win GUI admin tool.
> (*I* never would have bought it--it came as the result of a business
> acquisition and I haven't been able to justify the cost of replacing  
> it
> with more suitable network hardware.)
>
> >                                                                   Is
> > there any chance we'll see either a cross-plaform, command-line  or
> > Web-based GUI any time soon?
>
> That might put Watchguard back on my list of solutions for
> consideration--when the time came.
>
> I remove network infrastructure products from consideration  
> immediately
> if they have only a MS-Windows-based GUI administration facility.  In
> fact: I tend to avoid products that are limited to GUI-based
> administration.  I'm a belt-and-suspenders kind of a guy.  I like to
> retain the ability to log in via dialup and telnet to my network
> hardware.  If an Internet connection dies I can still get in and deal
> with my networks.  If a WAN circuit dies I can still access the remote
> location and trouble-shoot the problem from both ends.  Etc.
> Efficiently.  Without the overhead of IP-over-creaky-dialup.
>
> Jim
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