[ale] OT: Firewall purchase

[Christopher Fowler]

How much is the business worth?  If it is fly-by-night mom and pop type
business then BestBuy is perfect.  


On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 16:09, Vincent Fox wrote:
> > > I know I'll draw flames bit I tend to see two mindsets in this list
> > > group.
> > >
> > > The first one is those who want to reinvent the wheel to learn the
> > > internals. The others are those who value their money far more than their
> > > time.
> 
> Hmm, the original posts seemed to have lots of requirements that
> tend to conflict. Like asking if any sub-$100 appliances could
> support a business and run VPN and OSPF and all kinds of others
> goodies.
> 
> I think you are taking the wrong thing out of this discussion.
> The short answer is there isn't such an appliance. To expect
> D-Link or Netgear to supply a product that does all this and
> is that cheap would put Cisco out of business in a hurry.
> 
> So you boil down to people suggesting either expen$ive commercial solutions
> or those who roll their own to keep it on the cheap(ish) side. If you
> value your time more than your money, you will end up dropping a few
> thousand at the very least on hardware and support contracts. I'm not
> sure if anyone's mentioned it but in that vein you have some open
> source-based solutions like the WatchGuard "Firebox" products that
> should fill the bill of spend money get results. Can anyone speak to 
> the quality of these products?
> 
> 
> 
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