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Which firewall router is the best deal for the money?
I'm trying to weed through all of the firewall router options that are available. Which one, in your experience, is the best investment?
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Depends on the your needs/organization
If you're a small business I'd tell you to go buy a Linksys DSL/Router with built in firewall and be off to the races.
If you're a company that is small but need something more robust I'd tell you to look at Watchgaurd or Sonicwall. Sonicwall is definitely the easier to use of the two, but Watchguard is the cheaper TCO option.
Cisco PIX is expensive and a pain to use
Checkpoint is expensive, but pretty easy to use for an enterprise level solution
If its enterprise, I'd go Checkpoint
If its medium, I'd go Sonicwall
If its my house, I'd go Linksys
Personally I'd say separate the firewall and the router. We use linksys and billion modem/routers and then have "Secure Computing" Snapgear firewalls behind.
The firewall appliances are in general more powerful than the ones built into the modem. It also separates the firewall from the modem, so if you need to reset the modem or flash the bios on it, you don't lose your firewall settings. (One modem we had, when we had to fix a bug on it with the bios there was no way to separately restore the firewall settings so we had to reenter all the rules by hand). You can also do things like have two modems in bridged mode connected to the same firewall and intelligently route traffic between them and have both incoming lines coordinated with the same firewall rules.
We chose the snapgear because the local dealers for sonicwall and watchguard and the others didn't return our phone calls. It is good to a point, but it has some issues (only resolves names at boot time, it's possible to saturate the network intrerfaces (which are sadly made by realtek) and so forth).
Personally I'd say separate the firewall and the router. We use linksys and billion modem/routers and then have "Secure Computing" Snapgear firewalls behind.
The firewall appliances are in general more powerful than the ones built into the modem. It also separates the firewall from the modem, so if you need to reset the modem or flash the bios on it, you don't lose your firewall settings. (One modem we had, when we had to fix a bug on it with the bios there was no way to separately restore the firewall settings so we had to reenter all the rules by hand). You can also do things like have two modems in bridged mode connected to the same firewall and intelligently route traffic between them and have both incoming lines coordinated with the same firewall rules.
We chose the snapgear because the local dealers for sonicwall and watchguard and the others didn't return our phone calls. It is good to a point, but it has some issues (only resolves names at boot time, it's possible to saturate the network intrerfaces (which are sadly made by realtek) and so forth).
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