New Small Business Network

[Jon55]

I've been tasked with updating our company's network, which is a small business (15 workstations) that mainly use internet/MS office all on an Active Directory on Server 2008 R2. Someone set up an a very old firewall box at least 5 years ago, and it's starting to reboot itself all the time. At that time we needed VPN, but we haven't used that feature in at least 3 years (and Server 2008 has all remote/VPN related roles uninstalled). The firewall box was also acting as a DHCP server.

Is it worth getting a new dedicated firewall box for our setup? Of course we'd need some kind of basic firewall, but again we don't use VPN or anything remotely like that (the most complicated thing we have is the Active Directory).

 

[diizzy]

Yes?

http://www.provantage.com/zyxel-usg40-nb~7ZYX90MC.htm
That would be more than fine and have decent performance for your network, and does have VPN if you need it in the future.
//Danne

 

[Liger88]

Yes?

http://www.provantage.com/zyxel-usg40-nb~7ZYX90MC.htm
That would be more than fine and have decent performance for your network, and does have VPN if you need it in the future.
//Danne

Also has Active Directory integration. Agree something simple and basic should do the job just fine. I'm guessing the old guy custom built the previous firewall?

 

[Mackintire]

+1 Agree with the Zyxel Zywall.