I am looking for a hardware\software firewall for a small business set up, must be below £1,000 and reasonably straight forward to configure.....
I did look at a Sonic but I need a few comparisms

Any suggestions please..... :-)

Thanks

 

I use sonicwall in lots of small offices - work really well and dead easy to configure (15 mins usually)

 

At the risk of sounding like a cracked record, have a look at ipcop (http://www.ipcop.org) - it's a fork from smoothwall without the nastiness and commercial overtones.

1.3.0 seems rock steady and is based on the 2.4.x kernal, hence uses ipchains rather than iptables. it's truly stateful packet inspection. Configuration is simple, and like smoothwall it just takes 15 minutes to be up and running.

Those are the "free" options that I know of, and I can say that ipcop works well and does the job asked of it, but I'm only using it for home.

For something more than that, I'm afraid I'm out of my depth. Hopefully some of the firewall regulars (rather than dabblers like me) will wander by

 

Cheers all :-)

 

Nick, its the other way round, uses iptables instead of the old ipchains

 

Watchguard do a Firebox soho version for £299 ( 10 user ).

Checkpoint have launched an appliance too. Don't have any details to hand though. Someone on here had one though, as it was broke .......

Steve

 

I could have edited the original and said "eh?", but that'd be unfair

Momentary brain lapse - it uses iptables, not ipchains

 

Netscreen or SonicWALL .....but then we sell them......

 

Sonicwall great little box. I've installed many - very straight forward and pretty secure too. Netscreen also very good - we now sell these aswell. Lets just say that any firewall that makes it through our R&D procedures should be considered pretty good.

My company (Equant) are one of the top three managed firewall providers in the world. We only supply two ranges of firewalls. Not because of marketing, but because they were the only two that met and passed our own procedures. Netscreen is one of them.

Chris