Re: Fortinet's fortigate 100 devices

[Louis Wang <lwang () lwang org>]

Hi,
    My company has been using FortiGate 300 as our gateway to Internet
for 2 years. There are more than 50 people in our office. For our
major work is AntiVirus research, so we start AntiVirus and IPS
feature on FortiGate 300 in case that our virus samples run out to the
world. We also use VPN feature to communicate with trunk office and
other branch offices. As far as I know,  all these features of
FortiGate works well, no down time and etc. The only one problem I
found is that when AntiVirus feature start, network speed is slow
down. But it is said that other vendor's product will slow down more
seriously.
p.s. We use 10M fiber to Internet, 100M Switched VLAN Intranet.


2005/12/28, Jimmy Stewpot <squid () oranged to>:
> Hello,
>
> I am currently in the process of evaluating a security appliance by the
> company Fortinet. The product in specifics is the Fortigate 100. So far
> the product has been looking very impressive. However I have some
> questions that I am trying to find answers to.
>
> - Has anyone got any advice regarding the network performance of these
> devices in real world environments. During my testing I noticed they are
> using a Realtek 8139 based NIC. I personally have never had any issues
> with Realtek 8139 cards in environments ranging from slow to medium/high
> bandwidth utilization (40-50Mbps) however any feedback about how the
> Realtek network cards perform in the Fortigate would be greatly appreciated.
>
> - I noticed that the system has got HA functionality. It appears to be
> very similar to the way in which VRRP works. However it does not state
> that its actually VRRP (licensing issues perhaps). Does anyone have any
> feedback as to how good the fail over/fail back/ redundancy issues are
> on these devices?
>
> - Any overall opinions or feedback from anyone that has used the device
> in any production environments would be fantastic. Also if anyone knows
> of any competing products I would like be very interested to know about
> them.
>
> - I am also interested to know how everyones experiences are in regards
> to Fortinet support?
>
>
> So far my own experience in using the devices has been exceptional.
> However as we are looking to put them into some more intensive solutions
>  I need to find out as much information as I can so that we can prepare
> or look at bigger/faster Fortinet boxes or alternatives.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jimmy.
>
>
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