A long time ago we used a couple of commodity servers and fbuilder to manage our firewall needs. We were in danger of losing our Net Admin and since he was the only one of us capable of managing (adequately) the firewall, we were "sold" a Cisco ASA 5520 as a replacement. We've subsequently bought another for fail-over. Our Net Admin decided to stay and he's lamenting the fact that he can't do his job well with only 4 legs (we lose one on each for the fail-over connection).
He's asked me to find him an alternative but we just got through spending $100,000 to replace our phone system and our SAN.
Does anyone have any suggestions for a "runs on your own hardware" solution, either open-source, supported open-source (we went Switchvox by Digicom for our phone system for example) or other solutions that won't run us $20,000+ ($10,000 per box basically for the ASA's).
Yes, my Net Admin should be the one asking the questions but he's forum shy
TIA
He's asked me to find him an alternative but we just got through spending $100,000 to replace our phone system and our SAN.
Does anyone have any suggestions for a "runs on your own hardware" solution, either open-source, supported open-source (we went Switchvox by Digicom for our phone system for example) or other solutions that won't run us $20,000+ ($10,000 per box basically for the ASA's).
Yes, my Net Admin should be the one asking the questions but he's forum shy
TIA