Firewall Selection Advice
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From: LTKaveman on 4 Nov 2007 01:04 Good day. I'm starting a network consisting of 50 PCs through a satellite connection. I need a dedicated firewall which will be able to accomplish the following: -MAC Filtering for hardlined machines (the wireless router can handle MAC filtering for wireless) -Badwidth limits per MAC address for a specific time period -Logs of all traffic -Log specifically for bandwidth -Blocking of some P2P processes, but not all (don't allow gaming but do allow skype, etc) -DHCP -Normal DoS protection, etc -VPN is not important to us Any advice? I'm finding tons of equipment out there, but I'm hoping to spend less than $200. I've seen ZyXEL ZyWALL 2 Plus, which looks good, but I'm not 100% convinced. Thanks for your help.
From: "Mr. Arnold" MR. on 4 Nov 2007 05:58 <LTKaveman(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:1194156283.714874.166120(a)50g2000hsm.googlegroups.com... > Good day. I'm starting a network consisting of 50 PCs through a > satellite connection. I need a dedicated firewall which will be able > to accomplish the following: > > -MAC Filtering for hardlined machines (the wireless router can handle > MAC filtering for wireless) > -Badwidth limits per MAC address for a specific time period > -Logs of all traffic > -Log specifically for bandwidth > -Blocking of some P2P processes, but not all (don't allow gaming but > do allow skype, etc) > -DHCP > -Normal DoS protection, etc > -VPN is not important to us > > Any advice? I'm finding tons of equipment out there, but I'm hoping to > spend less than $200. I've seen ZyXEL ZyWALL 2 Plus, which looks good, > but I'm not 100% convinced. > > Thanks for your help. If wireless is involved, then you need to be posting to alt.internet,wireless to professionals that put those types of solutions together for clients. >
From: LTKaveman on 4 Nov 2007 07:31 > > If wireless is involved, then you need to be posting to > alt.internet,wireless to professionals that put those types of solutions > together for clients. > This is a network for both wireless and wired machines.
From: "Mr. Arnold" MR. on 4 Nov 2007 08:52 <LTKaveman(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:1194179485.741505.215500(a)z9g2000hsf.googlegroups.com... > > >> If wireless is involved, then you need to be posting to >> alt.internet,wireless to professionals that put those types of solutions >> together for clients. >> > > This is a network for both wireless and wired machines. > So? They work with both types of solutions in the wireless NG as clients have wired/wireless solutions they need help with to implement, and they can give you better advise on a wire/wireless solution. That's what they do. I can't say that you're posting to the wrong NG. But there are professionals over there that are just as savvy in wire/wireless FW solutions maybe even better than here. One thing they might say is keep the wireless out of the FW's trusted zone and not even get a wire/wireless FW appliance solution as an example and take another approach. I frequent both NG(s).
From: JJ on 4 Nov 2007 19:48
> I'm finding tons of equipment out there, but I'm hoping to spend less than > $200. Here is the cost figure to keep in mind: Between $50 and $100 in direct and indirect costs for EACH customer record inadvertently exposed. Perimeter protection is not a place to skimp on costs. JJ <LTKaveman(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:1194156283.714874.166120(a)50g2000hsm.googlegroups.com... > Good day. I'm starting a network consisting of 50 PCs through a > satellite connection. I need a dedicated firewall which will be able > to accomplish the following: > > -MAC Filtering for hardlined machines (the wireless router can handle > MAC filtering for wireless) > -Badwidth limits per MAC address for a specific time period > -Logs of all traffic > -Log specifically for bandwidth > -Blocking of some P2P processes, but not all (don't allow gaming but > do allow skype, etc) > -DHCP > -Normal DoS protection, etc > -VPN is not important to us > > Any advice? I'm finding tons of equipment out there, but I'm hoping to > spend less than $200. I've seen ZyXEL ZyWALL 2 Plus, which looks good, > but I'm not 100% convinced. > > Thanks for your help. > |