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Firewall Selection Advice LTKaveman@gmail.com 11-04-2007
Posted by LTKaveman@gmail.com on November 4, 2007, 1:04 am
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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.


Posted by Mr. Arnold on November 4, 2007, 5:58 am
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> 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.


>


Posted by LTKaveman@gmail.com on November 4, 2007, 7:31 am
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>
> 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.


Posted by Mr. Arnold on November 4, 2007, 8:52 am
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> >
>> 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).


Posted by JJ on November 4, 2007, 7:48 pm
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> 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


> 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.
>



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