Firewall

[mark_18]

Support,

I'm planning to buy a firewall, can anyone suggest a firewall that is easy to manage and easy to use.

Thanks for the inputs.

[perci100]

are you planning on sticking with just one server?

I posted a similar question a while back, I use a zywall USG 310 , Ive got 4 asterisk servers supporting 100 agents at the moment and i am adding two more shortly as well as web/db/archive. I am also using the firewall and it usually stays around 14% load and nowhere near the max sessions. This one may have been a bit of overkill with all the added features etc. It will run you around $700 but i really like the setup and have a couple of USG100's ( i used to use a USG100 when i had 1 server )

You could just use IP tables on the server itself especially if you only have a single server. It seems a lot of people i talk to running a firewall appliance have trouble topping out on throughput or connections as they expand. If your sticking with 1 server i think anything with decent throughput is fine if you must have a firewall.

[mark_18]

Thanks for the idea perci100.

[Acidshock]

Personally I like the Mikrotik RB1100AHx2. However there is a steep learning curve. Good news is you will get a very feature rich router/firewall for very little money. If you don't need to have a lot of throughput you could get a RB2011 for 125 dollars. You could even get an rb450 for 60.00. All will have the same features. They may be just limited to how much throughput you can handle depending on the features you are using.

[paolo]

Try an opensource firewall like PFsense

You could get a lot of resources on how to get it configured and it has a GUI that would make life easier

[dspaan]

I can vouch for pfSense as well. We bought this appliance which came recommended by the pfSense guys themselves: Netgate FW-7541 and it works fine. You can also get good support from pfSense but you'll have to pay for it. The pfSense forums are not always that helpful.