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Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance?
From: Jonathan Lassoff <jof () thejof com>
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 20:47:48 -0800
It really depends on what constraints you have. Do you care about: cost? performance? support? Personally, for cost-constrained applications of 1 Gbit/s or less (assuming modestly-sized packets, not all-DNS for example), I like OpenBSD/pf or Linux/netfilter and generic x86 64-bit servers. It's cheap, deeply customizable and since everything touches a CPU, it allows for deep traffic inspection. The tradeoff is that there's no support from major vendors, but there are many smaller but very experienced consulting shops that can integrate any patches and fix and issues that may arise. What kinds of things are you looking for? Cheers, jof On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Jones, Barry <BEJones () semprautilities com> wrote:
Hello all. I am potentially looking at firewall products and wanted suggestions as to the easiest firewalls to install, configure and maintain? I have a few small networks ( 50 nodes at one site, 50 odd at another, and maybe 20 at another. I have worked with Cisco Pix, ASA, Netscreen, and Checkpoint (Nokia), and each have strong and not as strong features for ease of use. Like everyone, I'm resource challenged and need an easy solution to stand up and operate. Feel free to ping me offline - and thank you for the assistance. ---------------------------------------- Barry Jones - CISSP GSNA Project Manager II Sempra Energy Utilities (760) 271-6822 P please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to. ----------------------------------------
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- Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Jones, Barry (Nov 08)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? -Hammer- (Nov 08)
- RE: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Dennis Burgess (Nov 09)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Eduardo Schoedler (Nov 09)
- RE: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Dennis Burgess (Nov 09)
- RE: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Blake T. Pfankuch (Nov 08)
- RE: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? R. Benjamin Kessler (Nov 08)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Jonathan Lassoff (Nov 08)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Seth Mos (Nov 09)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Tom Hill (Nov 09)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Seth Mos (Nov 09)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Tom Hill (Nov 09)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Tom Hill (Nov 09)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? -Hammer- (Nov 08)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Richard Kulawiec (Nov 09)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Alex Nderitu (Nov 09)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Joe Greco (Nov 09)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Richard Kulawiec (Nov 09)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Joe Greco (Nov 09)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? -Hammer- (Nov 09)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Alex Nderitu (Nov 09)