You strongly overestimate the value of your comments (3 cents), it seems
like there are many places more appropriate than this one for you to suggest
middle-of-the-road hardware running a proprietary OS that has among the
worst security records in the industry.

On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 4:59 PM, phoenixcomm <phoenixcomm@gmail.com> wrote:

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> MartC-n Coco wrote:
> >
> > Hi misc,
> >
> > I'm currently looking for hardware alternatives for firewalls that
> > should have more than four NICs.
> >
> > Currently we are buying R200s from Dell, but we have the 4 NIC
> > limitation. We could tell Dell to install a quad port NIC (in addition
> > to the two-port onboard card), but I haven't read good things about the
> > way they work.
> >
> > I've also looked into soekris, but they don't seem to have enough CPU
> > for what we want (this is pure speculation) as we also have intense
> > IPSec traffic on some of these firewalls (I've seen that some of them
> > could have encryption boards added to increase performance, but I don't
> > know if it works for any kind of protocol, or at what rate).
> >
> > In any case, what I would like to have is firewalls with multiple NICs
> > (at least 6 NICs) *and* sufficient CPU to let IPSec work alright at
> > least at ~50Mbps (internal backbone firewalls). The multiple NICs are to
> > use trunk, pfsync, real network interfaces, etc.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Martmn.
> >
> >
> >
> Hi Gang,
> well heres my 3 cents,
> first why use a stupid PC (any os) for routing...... REALY BAD jue,jue
> brake
> down and buy a old Cisco 7200,  7500, 3600 they are all very good routers,
> I
> used a 7500 for a while and now use a 3640
> i use pf as a transparent bridge behind my router.. and protects my servers
> I have 3 nics, (world, dmz, ssh)
>
> you could put up a firewall before your router and put everything out one
> vlan to the router.
> and I have a cisco 2900-xl-en switch with 3 vlans on it... and no
> bleeding..
> enjoy
> Crazy Cris
> :working:
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