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Firewall Advice

Apr 25, 2005 6:30PM PDT

My company intends to buy a firewall, and a company introduced 3 firewalls to us. We're not really familiar with this, and don't know how to decide.

Can anyone tell me which is more reliable and better? Or at least what are the good things and flaws about each firewall... The firewall is going to be used by more than 10 workstations.

They are Zywall-2, Cisco PIX 501-50 3DES/AES and Fortigate 50A.

Thank you in advance.

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Go with the one with the best support ..
Apr 26, 2005 4:08AM PDT

As for me I would choose Cisco .. because they are the easiest to get the support in my area..

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Firewall
Apr 28, 2005 12:30AM PDT

I have a PIX501 and it has been very reliable.
I would recommend you have them install the PDM software so you get a GUI interface to to administer the firewall.