[nycbug-talk] Firewall

[Steve Rieger]

Y'all

(been on the west side for a bit too long)


am looking for opinions and some help here,

Netscreen 10	Monowall		Astaro		Securepoint			Cisco PIX (cheapest one)
appliance		appliance		appliance	appliance			Appliance					(note  
appliance is also if the fw is running on unix as a fw only ie soekris)
yes				yes				unknown	yes					Yes							VPN Server
yes				yes				Yes			Unknown			Yes							DHCP SERVER
Yes				Unknown		Yes			Yes					Yes							Intrusion detection
No				Unknown		Yes			Yes					No ?						Spam (anti)
Yes ?			Unknown		Yes			Unkwnown			No ?						Content Filtering
No				Unknown	Unknown		Yes					No ?						Virus Protection (email)
yes				unknown	unknown		yes					Unknown					DHCP Cllient (WAN PORT)
$100			GPL(SW)		FFPU (SW)	FFPU (SW)			$2000						aproxamite cost.  
FFPU = free for private use, SW = software only.


 From this list i am devising that the following are mandatory


firewall shouuld be an appliance that runs not much else
should be a dhcp server on the trusted side.


can you guys halp me out here, i would like to have a decent matrix,  
once it finalized i will put it up on the faq page. also if there is  
sonething out there that i missed let me know
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Steve Rieger
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