I have been using sonicwall Tele2 appliances to connect to my FW1 4.1 SP5
firewall..
It works great although I am only using Manual IPSec
at the moment. I am told that using
IKE is also possible and that it works find too.
You can't beat
the price.. 484USD for a 5 User
Firewall Appliance. Perfect for my regional sales offices all over the world. There are even bigger units that have
higher user licenses.
I was looking at the
PDS2100 appliance at one point, but the cost was very restrictive.
Joe
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Joseph
Voisin, Systems and Network Administrator, Engel Canada Inc.
www.engelmachinery.com |
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-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Ellenden
[mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001
10:22 AM
To:
[email protected]
Subject: Re: [FW-1] VPN appliance
for remote office
I would also recommend
that you have a look at Nokia's IP series appliances, the lower end ones are
very good value for money, or the Nokia VPN series products which are really
great value for money and go like a dream.
-----Original Message-----
From: Mailing list for discussion
of Firewall-1 [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Durwin Brown
Sent: 23 October 2001 15:00
To:
[email protected]
Subject: [FW-1] VPN appliance for
remote office
I'm considering implementing a VPN
as an alternative to international ISDN dialup routers we currently use.
My applications are basically
Windows Terminal Services (No Citrix at the moment) plus LPR for printing to JetDirect
type print servers.
I was thinking of using some sort of
VPN appliance to handle encryption at remote offices, not least because I can't
load SecureClient onto a printer device. Options presented to me include Intel,
Lucent, GnatsBox, Sonicwall, PDS and Cisco. We currently have FW4.1
(no VPN) as our central firewall but I might dump it in favour of something
cheaper - it seems overkill for our internet usage and we have no significant
in-house skills. Right now it looks like the smart money is on Cisco.
Does anyone out there have
experience of running these devices, either in terms of the approach /
configuration and/or specific hardware?
Any contributions most appreciated.
Durwin Brown
Business
Planning & IT Manager
Canford
Audio Plc
United Kingdom