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Small Business Firewall

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devin_m

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I'm pricing out a Firewall/Router for a small business, 6 PCs and a Server with a 30/30 internet connection, does anyone have any suggestions?

I am not going used as they want full warranty support
 
As of right now I'm getting numbers together for a proposal to the client
I'm looking at about $500 - $750 for the firewall and if I could do VPN in that price range it would be good
 
I would check out an prebuilt untangle box from a vendor with support for your situtation.
 
Zyxel USG, USg50 or USG100, 2 or 5 year warranty. Very stable.
 
Juniper SSG5 would fall in that price range as well if you don't need UTM functionality. TZ series Sonicwalls aren't a bad bet either.
 
Get a UTM. If you need a small biz router then buy a linksys. For a business its better not to compromise.
 
Cisco ASA's are fine.

Juniper SSG5 might work.....maybe.

Juniper SRX100 would work.

There's nothing wrong with a PFsense box. That would work also.

No way can I recommend the Linksys RV series. The psudo-VPN client sort of works, but Cisco's real VPN client works only in some condition. Cisco purchased our RV082 V3 back from us after Cisco support couldn't get their IPsec VPN endpoint to work with the Cisco's IPsec client. Cisco's suggestion......we are sorry but you should have just bought an ASA.

We purchased a Zyxel USG 100 instead.


There are many good choices here but the Linksys RV series is not one of them.
 
I like pfsense, I often buy 1U Atom Supermicro barebones and its bang for bucks
 
Mackintire said:
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No way can I recommend the Linksys RV series. The psudo-VPN client sort of works, but Cisco's real VPN client works only in some condition. Cisco purchased our RV082 V3 back from us after Cisco support couldn't get their IPsec VPN endpoint to work with the Cisco's IPsec client. Cisco's suggestion......we are sorry but you should have just bought an ASA.

We purchased a Zyxel USG 100 instead.


There are many good choices here but the Linksys RV series is not one of them.
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Similar experience here, the original RV series was dynamite when it was released in 2005. However, it got left in the dust quickly by Linksys/Cisco crappy firmware and half-ass support. Cisco/Linksys has a habit of NOT supporting their "SMB" line at all with either tech support or Firmware updates (that actually work).
 
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