Fortinet's fortigate 100 devices

[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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